Quaker Biographies: A Series of Sketches, Chiefly Biographical, Concerning Members of the Society of Friends, from the Seventeenth Century to More Recent Times, Količina 3Religious Society of Friends for Pennsylvania, New Jesey and Delaware, 1912 |
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Acadians America Anthony Benezet Arthur Howell asked attend Baltimore Yearly Meeting became called Captain Colonel Pickering comfort Cornplanter council daughter death Delaware Drinker duty England English faith fear feeling felt followed gave gentle George Gospel Granville Sharp Heavenly Father held horses Indians interest John Churchman John Pemberton John Wool John Woolman Journal journey knew labor land leave letter Little Turtle lived Lord Mary Pryor Meeting House miles mind minister Month negroes Nottingham peace Pennsylvania persons Philadelphia Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Quakers reached religious visit returned River Samuel Emlen says seemed sent ship sick Society of Friends soon speak spirit spoke Street tells thee things Thomas Chalkley Thomas Story Thomas Wistar thou thought tion told took traveled treaty TUNESASSA vessel wife William Penn William Savery woman women wrote Yearly Meeting young
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Stran 94 - In that delightful land which is washed by the Delaware's waters, Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle, Stands on the banks of its beautiful stream the city he founded. There all the air is balm, and the peach is the emblem of beauty...
Stran 45 - Of casting lots for life or death, Offered, if Heaven withheld supplies, To be himself the sacrifice. Then, suddenly, as if to save The good man from his living grave, 300 A ripple on the water grew, A school of porpoise flashed in view, "Take, eat...
Stran 158 - That, in all capital or criminal prosecutions, a man hath a right to demand the cause and nature of his accusation, to be confronted with the accusers and witnesses, to call for evidence in his favor, and to a speedy trial by an impartial jury of his vicinage, without whose unanimous consent he cannot be found guilty ; nor can he be compelled to give evidence against himself...
Stran 150 - I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness ; and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be as extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard to the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit.
Stran 105 - They were then met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was to be taken on either side, but all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love.
Stran 67 - In midst of dangers, fears, and death, Thy goodness I'll adore ; And praise thee for thy mercies past, And humbly hope for more. My life, if thou preserv'st my life, Thy sacrifice shall be ; And death, if death must be my doom, Shall join my soul to thee.
Stran 105 - THE Great Spirit who made me and you, who rules the heavens and the earth, and who knows the innermost thoughts of men, knows that I and my friends have a hearty desire to live in peace and friendship with you, and to serve you to the utmost of our power. It is not our custom to use hostile weapons against our fellow creatures, for which reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good.
Stran 154 - Great Britain and America, and the uniform tenor of the conduct and conversation of a number of persons of considerable wealth, who profess themselves to belong to the society of people commonly called Quakers, render it certain and notorious that those persons are with much rancour and bitterness disaffected to the American cause.
Stran 9 - Though trading in things useful is an honest employ; yet, through the great number of superfluities which are bought and sold, and through the corruption of the times, they who apply to...
Stran 150 - Maker for the religion or mode of faith which they may prefer or profess. " Your principles and conduct are well known to me ; and it is doing the people called Quakers no more than justice to say, that (except their declining to share with others, the burthen of the common defence) there is no denomination among us who are more exemplary and useful citizens.