 | John Jortin - 1824 - 204 pages
...received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to shew themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. " The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | Francis William Pitt Greenwood - 1827 - 184 pages
...freedom just received, and exhorting the free people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them." NOTE— page 63. On reading to a friend my remarks on the African character, he observed to me, that... | |
 | James Armstrong Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball - 1838 - 502 pages
...just received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. The first of August came on Friday, and a release was ;>ro13 *?.* claimed from all work until the next... | |
 | John R. Cook - 1838 - 500 pages
...just received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to.the laws, and. to show themselves in all things worthy of the high- boon which God had conferred upon them.__^ The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1842 - 40 pages
...just received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. "The 1st of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1842 - 50 pages
...received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to shew themselves in all things worthy of .the high boon which God had conferred upon them. " The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | 1843 - 588 pages
...just received, and exhorting the freed people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. " ' The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 442 pages
...freedom just received, and exhorting the free people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. "The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | William Ellery Channing - 1843 - 432 pages
...freedom just received, and exhorting the free people to be industrious, steady, obedient to the laws, and to show themselves in all things worthy of the high boon which God had conferred upon them. "The first of August came on Friday, and a release was proclaimed from all work until the next Monday.... | |
 | Samuel Joseph May - 1845
...congregation became calm, and th£ remainder of the night was occupied in singing and prayer, in*,reading the Bible, and in addresses from the missionaries,...I was overcome with emotion ; and I can never read :t without a beating heart. Gladly would 1 give the best volume in my library to any one, who would... | |
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... religious exercises were resumed, and the remainder of the night was occupied in singing and prayer, in reading the Bible, and in addresses from the missionaries, explaining the nature of the freedom just received, and exhorting the freed people to... 
