 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Enslaved persons - 1848 - 628 pages
...have seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers, without adverting to that great, and, in my...conviction that she was urging the truth, and truth of the utmost importance — the whole constituted a species of ministry, which no one could hear, and which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1848 - 638 pages
...have seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great and, in my...conviction that she was urging the truth, and truth of the utmost importance — the whole constituted a species of ministry which no one could hear, and which... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Abolitionists - 1848 - 646 pages
...ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers, without adverting to that great, and, iu my estimation, that astonishing display of them, which...conviction that she was urging the truth, and truth of the utmost importance — the whole constituted a species of ministry, which no one could hear, and which... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray, George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1848 - 636 pages
...have seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great and, in my...ministry. I have listened to many eminent preachers, and ntany speakers also, but I deem her as perfect a speaker as I ever heard. The tone of her voice, her... | |
 | American periodicals - 1848 - 602 pages
...have seldom kuown a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great and, in my estimation, that astonishing display of them which wan afforded by her minictry. I have listened to many eminent preachers, and many speakers also, but... | |
 | Charles Buxton - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 862 pages
...have seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great, and in my...conviction that she was urging the truth, and truth of the utmost importance — -the whole constituted a species of ministry which no one could hear, and which... | |
 | Priscilla Gurney - 1856 - 236 pages
...have c seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great, and, in my...her voice, her beauty, the singular clearness of her conceptions, and, above all, her own strong conviction that she was urging the truth, and truth of... | |
 | Zachariah Atwell Mudge - Abolitionists - 1865 - 284 pages
...have seldom known a, person of such sterling ability; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers without adverting to that great and, in my...as perfect a speaker as I ever heard. The tone of hen voice, her beauty, the singular clearness of her conception, -and, above all, her own strong conviction... | |
 | 1873 - 932 pages
...no doubt welcome its being quoted in a note. " I have listened, " he says in one of his letters, " to many eminent preachers, and many speakers also,...a speaker as I ever heard. The tone of her voice, ner beauty, the singular clearness of her conception, and above all her own strong conviction that... | |
 | Presbyterianism - 1889 - 656 pages
...great British philanthropist, referring to the ministry of Priscilla Gurney, the Quakeress, he says : " I deem her as perfect a speaker as I ever heard. The...that she was urging the truth, — and truth of the utmost importance, — the whole constituted a species of ministry which no one could hear, and which,... | |
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I have seldom known a person of such sterling ability ; and it is impossible to mention these mental powers, without adverting to that great, and, in my estimation, that astonishing display of them, which was afforded by her ministry. I have listened... 
