 | Society of Friends - 1903
...occasion William Penn, Governor and Friend, in concluding his brief address, said : " Our desire is not to do injury and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. We are now met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, and no advantage will be taken on... | |
 | 1924
...hand standing beneath the Treaty Elm. The inscription is from Penn's message to the Indians: "We are met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage is to be taken oa either side, but all to be openness, brotherhood and love." Later he became a great... | |
 | 1841
...use hostile weapons against our fellowcreatures, for which reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. We are met on the broad pathway of good faith and good-will, so that no advantage is to be taken on... | |
 | New-York Historical Society - 1821
...and his followers with the savage chiefs; when, to recur again to his own inimitable words, " they met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was taken on either side, but all was openness, brotherhood, and love." Montesquieu, with his usual brilliant... | |
 | Mark Alexander Williams - 2001 - 247 Seiten
...that I and my friends have a hearty desire to live in peace and friendship with you. Our object is not to do injury and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. www.san.beck.org/WP12-Foxandpenn.html. In the early nineteenth century, William Ellery Channing, a... | |
 | Randy Woodley - 2010
...hostile weapons against our fellow-creatures, for which reason we have come unarmed. Our object is not to do injury, and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. We are met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage is to be taken on... | |
 | Poetry - 1870
...serve them to the utmost of their power. It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed....broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that all was to be openness, brotherhood, and love." After these and other words, by means of the interpreter,... | |
 | 1819
...and his followers with the savage chiefs; when, to recur again to his own inimitable words, " they met on the broad pathway of good faith and good will, so that no advantage was taken on either side, but all was openness, brotherhood and love." ' Montesquieu, with his usual brilliant... | |
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It was not their custom to use hostile weapons against their fellow-creatures, for which reason they had come unarmed. Their object was not to do injury and thus provoke the Great Spirit, but to do good. They... 
