 I thank you for it. It is not a little surprising, that the professors of Christianity, whose chief excellence consists in softening the human heart, in cherishing and improving its finer feelings, should encourage a practice so totally repugnant to the...  Memoirs of the Life of Anthony Benezet - Page 65by Roberts Vaux - 1817 - 136 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 348 pages
...take this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of Anthony Benezet's book against the slave-trade : I thank you for it It is not a little surprising,...professors of Christianity, whose chief excellence consists m softening the human heart j in cherishing and improving its finer feelings, should encourage a practice... | |
 | Anthony Benezet, Roberts VAUX - 1859 - 172 pages
...unhappily the proprietors of slaves. FROM PATRICK HENRY. "Hanover, January 18, 1773. "DEAR SIR: "I take this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of...surprising that the professors of Christianity, whose chief excellenoe consists in softening the human heart, and in cherishing and improving its finer feelings,... | |
 | George Duffield - 1861 - 64 pages
...on the whole, it is the safest line of conduct. G. D B. Hanover, January 18, 1773. DEAR SIR : — I take this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of Anthony Benezet's book against the slave-trade : I thank you for it. It is not a little surprising, that the professors of Christianity,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1867 - 192 pages
...sleep forever." We cherish * In a letter dated January 18, 1773, Patrick Henry thus wrote:— "Is it not a little surprising that the professors of Christianity,...excellence consists in softening the human heart, and in cherishing and improving its finer feelings, should encourage a practice so totally repugnant... | |
 | Harriet Beecher Stowe - 1896 - 504 pages
...to be a copy of the other : LETTER OF PATRICK HENRY. . HANOVEK, January 18th, 1773. DEAR SIR, — I take this opportunity to acknowledge the receipt of Anthony Benezet's book against the slave-trade ; I thank you for it. Is it not a little surprising that the professors of Christianity,... | |
 | Catherine La Courreye Blecki, Karin A. Wulf - 2010 - 370 pages
...Hanover Jany. 18th. 1773. I take this opportunity to acknowledge the Rec[eip]t. of A. Benezets Book62 against the Slave Trade, I thank you for it — It is not a little surprising that Christianity whose chief Excellence consists in softening the human Heart, in cherishing & improving... | |
 | Nancy Lee Rhoden, Ian Kenneth Steele - 2000 - 396 pages
...advocate in Virginia, Henry admitted in his letter of thanks: "I take this Opportunity to acknowledge ye receipt of Anthony Benezet's book against the slave trade. I thank you for it. Would anyone believe that I am a Master of Slaves of my own purchase? I am drawn along by ye general... | |
 | James H. Hutson - 2009 - 288 pages
...take this opportunity to acknowledge the receit of Anthony Benezet's Book against the slave trade.32 I thank you for it. It is not a little surprising...excellence consists in softening the human heart, and in cherishing and improving its finer feelings, should encourage a practice so totally repugnant... | |
 | Erik S. Root - 2008 - 268 pages
...noted as much to Robert Pleasants in 1773: I take this oppo. to acknowledge the receipt of A. Benezets Book against the Slave Trade. I thank you for it. It is not a little surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists in softening the human heart, in cherishing & improving... | |
 | 1861 - 804 pages
...Society of Friends, then residing at Hudson, NY : — HANOVER, Va., Jan. 13, 1773. DEAR SIR : — I H)H yG l ae y !, R3 U p r cJ uot a little surprising that Christianity, whose chief excellence consists in softening the human heart,... | |
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