The Slaves' Champion, Or, The Life, Deeds, and Historical Days of William Wilberforce: Written in Commemoration of the Centenary of His BirthdaySeeleys, 1859 - 172 trang |
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1st of August abolished abolition of slavery acts Barbadoes Birthday of Freedom blessing British Guiana British Senate cause Champion character Christ Christian Clarkson colonies death deeds eloquence emancipation England estates evil eyes feelings France friends gave give glorious Granville Sharpe gratitude hand happy hear heart Heaven holy honour hope House of Commons human hundred influence Isaac Milner Joseph Milner Joseph Sturge justice labour liberty Living Thoughts London Lord Brougham Loud cheers mankind matter memory ment millions Milner mind moral Napoleon nation negro never noble Parliament parliamentary peace persons philanthropist pious Pitt planters political possessed readers received recollection religion religious slave slave-trade society soul speaking speech spirit Thomas Clarkson Thompson thou thousands tion traffic trafficker in human treaty truth victory voice Warren Hastings West Indies William Wilberforce Wimbledon words worthy Yorkshire young Zachary Macaulay
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Trang 46 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Trang 40 - His presence is like sunshine sent to gladden home and hearth, To comfort us in all our griefs, and sweeten all our mirth. Should he grow up to riper years, God grant his heart may prove As sweet a home for heavenly grace as now for earthly love : And if, beside his grave, the tears our aching eyes must dim, God comfort us for all the love which we shall lose in him.
Trang 108 - to consider what step they should take for the relief and liberation of the negro slaves in the West Indies, and for the discouragement of the slave-trade on the coast of Africa.
Trang 100 - THEREFORE with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify thy glorious Name, evermore praising thee, and saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of hosts, heaven and earth are full of thy glory. Glory be to thee, O Lord most high.
Trang 38 - When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones, Forget not : in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that rolled Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans The vales redoubled to the hills and they To heaven.
Trang 97 - The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
Trang 25 - Which monarchs cannot grant, nor all the powers Of Earth and Hell confederate take away : A liberty, which persecution, fraud, Oppression, prisons have no power to bind ; Which whoso tastes can be enslaved no more. "Tis liberty of heart derived from Heaven, Bought with HIS blood who gave it to mankind, And seal'd with the same token.
Trang 130 - We hold these truths to be self-evident — that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that amongst these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Trang 42 - Cast thy bread upon the waters, and thou shalt find it after many days.
Trang 112 - tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword ; whose tongue Outvenoms all the worms of Nile ; whose breath Rides on the posting winds, and doth belie All corners of the world : kings, queens, and states, Maids, matrons, nay, the secrets of the grave This viperous slander enters.