 ... how intense were my sufferings. But the point, the acme of my distress, consisted in the awful uncertainty of our final fate. My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and...  Ladies' Magazine - Page 1401829Full view - About this book
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1829 - 340 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though...rest, where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters. But how have I digressed from my relation. I will again return. " The war was now prosecuted with all... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1829 - 344 pages
...My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannick hands of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances,... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Missionaries - 1830 - 288 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though...rest, where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters. But how have I digressed from my relation. I will again return. " The war was now prosecuted with all... | |
 | Missions - 1799 - 330 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer a violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable, though...where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters." On one occasion Mrs. J. heard that all the white prisoners were earned away. She remarks, " I would... | |
 | Joseph Tracy - Black people - 1840 - 764 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though...look beyond this world, to that rest, that peaceful, happv rest, where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters. But how have I digressed from my relation.... | |
 | James Davis Knowles - Baptists - 1844 - 426 pages
...My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though...rest, where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters. But how have I digressed from my relation. I will again return. " The war was now prosecuted with all... | |
 | Amos Blanchard - Martyrs - 1844 - 552 pages
...My prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer violent death; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though short existence, in the tyrannic kuuls of some unfeeling monster. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were... | |
 | 1845 - 616 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer a violent death, and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable, though...existence in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling master. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither few nor small.... | |
 | John Dowling - Missionaries - 1847 - 322 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer a violent death ; and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable though...where Jesus reigns, and oppression never enters." In the touching narrative penned by the afflicted sufferer herself, there is scarcely an allusion to... | |
 | India - 1848 - 618 pages
...prevailing opinion was, that my husband would suffer a violent death, and that I should, of course, become a slave, and languish out a miserable, though...existence in the tyrannic hands of some unfeeling master. But the consolations of religion, in these trying circumstances, were neither few nor small.... | |
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