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Page xi
... cause of African freedom . This intention being communicated to Mr. Sharp's family , they were desirous of enlarging the proposal so far as to include a memorial of his whole life ; and the plan being determined , the task of per ...
... cause of African freedom . This intention being communicated to Mr. Sharp's family , they were desirous of enlarging the proposal so far as to include a memorial of his whole life ; and the plan being determined , the task of per ...
Page xii
... causes which could not be foreseen , -by the suffering of repeated illness since the period when I first printed my Prospectus of illness aggravated not unfrequently by an apprehension that , as the real cause of the delay could be ...
... causes which could not be foreseen , -by the suffering of repeated illness since the period when I first printed my Prospectus of illness aggravated not unfrequently by an apprehension that , as the real cause of the delay could be ...
Page xxv
... Cause of a third Negro Slave , Thomas Lewis , undertaken at the request of Mrs. Banks .. 52 Lewis brought back from a ship lying in the Downs .... 54 36 37 37 ..... He receives a challenge : his answer .... ......... . Devotes himself ...
... Cause of a third Negro Slave , Thomas Lewis , undertaken at the request of Mrs. Banks .. 52 Lewis brought back from a ship lying in the Downs .... 54 36 37 37 ..... He receives a challenge : his answer .... ......... . Devotes himself ...
Page xxvi
... cause of Somerset 104 G.S. assisted by Dr. Fothergill and Mr. Alleyne 106 Affairs of the Caribbees in St. Vincent's ... Cause of James Somerset selected for trial of the general question regarding Slaves in England Letter addressed by ...
... cause of Somerset 104 G.S. assisted by Dr. Fothergill and Mr. Alleyne 106 Affairs of the Caribbees in St. Vincent's ... Cause of James Somerset selected for trial of the general question regarding Slaves in England Letter addressed by ...
Page xxvii
... Cause of Millachip undertaken by the City 164 Mr. Sharp's part in it ...... 165 Lord Mansfield's observations on the trial .... 166 Conversation with Dr. Johnson on the legality of pressing .... ...... ....... .. ....... 168 Mr. Sharp's ...
... Cause of Millachip undertaken by the City 164 Mr. Sharp's part in it ...... 165 Lord Mansfield's observations on the trial .... 166 Conversation with Dr. Johnson on the legality of pressing .... ...... ....... .. ....... 168 Mr. Sharp's ...
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Page 94 - The importation of slaves into the colonies from the coast of Africa hath long been considered as a trade of great inhumanity, and under its present encouragement, we have too much reason to fear will endanger the very existence of your Majesty's American dominions.
Page 463 - Letters addressed to Granville Sharp, Esq. respecting his Remarks on the Uses of the Definitive Article in the Greek Text of the New Testament.
Page iii - I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib : but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider. Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evil doers, children that are corrupters : they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.
Page 326 - Who hate the good, and love the evil; Who pluck off their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones ; Who also eat the flesh of my people, And flay their skin from off them ; And they break their bones, And chop them in pieces, as for the pot, And as flesh within the caldron.
Page iii - HEAR, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: For the Lord hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, And they have rebelled against me.
Page 517 - Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you ; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land : and they shall be your possession.
Page iii - Yea, the stork in the heaven knoweth her appointed times; and the turtle and the crane and the swallow observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of the Lord.
Page 197 - But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do : for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking. Be not ye therefore like unto them : for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask Him.
Page 160 - Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction. 9 Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
Page 443 - WITH THE SACRED STRAIN, •• GLORY TO GOD IN THE HIGHEST, ON EARTH PEACE AND GOOD WILL TOWARD MEN," ON WHICH HIS LIFE PRESENTED ONE BEAUTIFUL COMMENT OF GLOWING PIETY AND UNWEARIED BENEFICENCE.