The Bee, Or Literary Intelligencer, Band 10James Anderson Mundell and Son, Parliament Stairs, 1792 |
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Seite 35 - ... preferring instant destruction by their jaws, to the imaginary horrors of a lingering slavery. " That, among the enormous breakers and surfs which roll on the shores of your petitioners, numbers of English boats are destroyed, the crews of which usually fall to their lot, and afford them...
Seite 37 - ... our houses, our lands, and our cattle are our own, the fear of forfeiting them will be a constant. restraint upon our actions,' " The sincerity of this afsertion was manifested by the event.
Seite 38 - Poland, has warmly patronized the plan of giving liberty to the peasants. He has enfranchised four villages not far from Warsaw, in which he has not only emancipated the peasants from their slavery, but even condescends to direct their affairs. He explained to me, in the most satisfactory manner, that the grant of freedom was no less advantageous to the lord than to the peasant, provided the former is willing to superintend their conduct for a few years, and to put them in the way of acting for themselves.
Seite 37 - were, in 1777* visited by the author of the patriotic letters, " from whom I received the following information : — On in...
Seite 38 - I mall ever revere, continues his attention to their concerns : he vifits their cottages ; /uggefts improvements in agriculture ; inftructs them in the mode of rearing cattle and bees; and points out the errors into which ignorance and incapacity occafionally betray them.
Seite 4 - ... the great struggle. Two or three other William Strodes were living at the same time, but these were quite undistinguished persons. Of our William Strode there is little more to be recorded, so far as his personal history is concerned. He married a daughter of Dr. Simpson, Prebendary of Canterbury, by whom he had an only daughter, who became the wife of Henry Langley, Master of Arts, of Wadham College. The poet died on March...
Seite 37 - ... ten years of slavery immediately preceding their enfranchisement, he found the number of births 434; in the first ten years of their freedom, from 1760 to 1770, 620 ; and from 1770 to the beginning of 1777, 585 births.
Seite 35 - ... will be effectually frustrated. " Should the lower branch of the legislature be so far infatuated by this newfangled humanity as seriously to meditate the destruction of this beneficial commerce, your petitioners have the firmest reliance on the wisdom and fellow-feelings of the lords spiritual and temporal of Great Britain. '• Your petitioners know that the truly benevolent will ever be consistent, — that they will not sacrifice one...
Seite 36 - ... suffer sharks to starve, in order that negroes may be happy ; — yet your petitioners are apprehensive that the baleful influence of this philanthropic mania is already felt, even within the walls of your lordships ; wherefore they crave to be heard by counsel, at the bar of your august assembly...
Seite 34 - ... of the members, and several abridgments of this abridgment were afterwards published throughout the nation. The people, in general, warmly espoused the abolition, and petitions were presented to parliament, from almost every class of persons in the kingdom, praying that this • Bombay Courier.