 | John Comly, Isaac. eّo a̲o Comly - 1837 - 428 pàgines
...was further led to show the great impropriety of the professors of Truth, suffering their minds to.be captivated with the love of a rambling, lazy life,...took hold of their minds. After a laborious meeting with them on first-day, I went to the Spring monthly meeting, held next day. This was a season of favour,... | |
 | Johns Hopkins University - 1896 - 428 pàgines
...against a disposition that leads to unsettlement, and to ramble farther out into remote places .... to show the great impropriety of the professors of...new settlements to seek a maintenance by hunting, &c."1 This was for North Carolina the beginning of the westward migration. From Tennessee many drifted... | |
 | Ella Kent Barnard - 1909 - 442 pàgines
...against a disposition that leads to unsettlement, and to ramble farther out into remote places * * to show the great impropriety of the professors of...new settlements to seek a maintenance by hunting, etc." There is a most interesting old picture preserved of the New Garden meeting-house erected in... | |
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I was likewise concerned to caution Friends against a disposition that leads to unsettlement, and to ramble farther out into remote places, from whence the poor Indians have been driven, or their lands obtained by measures inconsistent with the holy principle... 