The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave-trade by the British Parliament, Том 1Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1808 |
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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the ..., Том 1 Thomas Clarkson Повний перегляд - 1808 |
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Сторінка 108 - OH for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man.
Сторінка 386 - Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head : and I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it...
Сторінка 109 - I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.
Сторінка 139 - And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death.
Сторінка 53 - Lured by the scent Of steaming crowds, of rank disease and death, Behold ! he rushing cuts the briny flood, Swift as the gale can bear the ship along ; And, from the partners of that cruel trade, Which spoils unhappy Guinea of her sons, Demands his share of prey ; demands themselves.
Сторінка 154 - I found, from place to place, this uneasiness return upon me, at times, through the whole visit.
Сторінка 109 - Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall.
Сторінка 108 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Сторінка 45 - Whereto thus Adam fatherly displeased. "O execrable son so to aspire Above his brethren, to himself assuming Authority usurped, from God not given; He gave us only over beast, fish, fowl Dominion absolute; that right we hold By his donation; but man over men He made not lord; such title to himself Reserving, human left from human free.
Сторінка 152 - I was hired by the year, that it was my master who directed me to do it, and that it was an elderly man, a member of our Society, who bought her; so through weakness I gave way, and wrote...