 | Thomas Bingley - Africa - 1864 - 232 pages
...character to avoid heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear, but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose.' Soon after Ledyard's arrival in London, he was, through the influence of Sir Joseph Banks,... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1865 - 594 pages
...character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement to the Society;... | |
 | David Livingstone - Africa, Central - 1872 - 646 pages
...to avoid a heavier calamity. My dis tresses have been greater than I have over owned, or over will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they never yet had the power to turn me from my purposo/ Such was the indomitable energy of this man, the first ol a long... | |
 | John Dempster Bell - Conduct of life - 1878 - 482 pages
..." I am accustomed to hardships. My distresses hare been greater than I have ever owned or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear, but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement to the Society [the... | |
 | H. G. Somerville - Poor - 1896 - 240 pages
...character to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear, but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose." To have to submit to be thought a lunatic to escape starvation must certainly have been rather... | |
 | English periodicals - 1867 - 574 pages
...character to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own, to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear ; but they have never yet had force to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform in its utmost... | |
 | James Zug - History - 2009 - 314 pages
...character to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evils are terrible to bear; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement to the Society;... | |
 | Jared Sparks - Biography & Autobiography - 2007 - 233 pages
...calamity. My distresses have been greater than I have ever owned, or ever will own to any man. Such evEs are terrible to bear; but they never yet had power to turn me from my purpose. If I live, I will faithfully perform, in its utmost extent, my engagement to the society;... | |
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... the utmost extremity of human suffering. I have known what it is to have food given me as charity to a madman; and I have at times been obliged to shelter myself under the miseries of that character, to avoid a heavier calamity. My distresses have... 
