 Would any one believe that I am master of slaves of my own purchase ? I am drawn along by the general inconvenience of living without them. I will not, I cannot, justify it; however culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my ' devoir' to virtue as to own...  The Abolitionist - Pàgina 1531833Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Julius Rubens Ames, Benjamin Lundy - 1843 - 598 pàgines
...living here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. / believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered... | |
 | 1843 - 404 pàgines
...here without them. I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay rny devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. / believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered... | |
 | 1841 - 432 pàgines
...rejects it in speculation; how few in practice, from conscientious motives! * * I believe a time icitt come when an opportunity will be offered to abolish...evil. Every thing we can do is to improve it, if it happen in our day; if not, Ictus transmit toour descendants, together with our slaves, a pity for iheir... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 494 pàgines
...I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a...will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil." And Franklin, as President of the earliest Abolition Society of the country, signed a petition to the... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 494 pàgines
...master of slaves, said, " I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered... | |
 | 1851 - 796 pàgines
...living here without them. T will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity will be offered... | |
 | 1851 - 796 pàgines
...living here without them. T will not, I cannot justify it However culpable my conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precept*, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come, when an opportunity... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1852 - 90 pàgines
...master of slaves, said : " I will not, I cannot justify it. However culpable ray conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue, as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them." At this very period, in the Legislature of Maryland, on a bill... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 282 pàgines
...conduct, I will so far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a...opportunity will be offered to abolish this lamentable evil. Everything we can do is to improve it, if it happens in our day ; if not, let us transmit to our descendants,... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1853 - 316 pàgines
...I will so "far pay my devoir to virtue as to own the excellence and rectitude of her precepts, and lament my want of conformity to them. I believe a time will come when an opportunity will bo offered to abolish this laincntubln evil Everything wo can do is to improve it, if it happens in... | |
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