To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre,... The life of Samuel Johnson - Seite 591von James Boswell - 1817Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| James Boswell, Samuel Johnson - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...general mischief, when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only...of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' shut... | |
| James Boswell - 1887 - 492 Seiten
...general mischief, when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only...of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' shut... | |
| James Boswell - 1888 - 544 Seiten
...general mischief when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only...it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in then- own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when their passage... | |
| James Boswell - 1889 - 578 Seiten
...general mischief when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow- subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves... | |
| James Boswell - 1900 - 546 Seiten
...general mischief when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only...of life; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to * shut... | |
| James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 Seiten
...general mischief, when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has to pass slightly over those performances and incidents...the minute details of daily life, where exteriour West-Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to ' shut... | |
| James Boswell - 1910 - 548 Seiten
...general mischief when desperate, my opinion is unshaken. To abolish a status, which in all ages GOD has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only...bondage in their own country, and introduces into a mucli happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West-Indies and their treatment... | |
| Gustav Spiller - 1916 - 168 Seiten
...earning the grave disapproval of Boswell, who held that " to abolish a status which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages." An attempt had been made... | |
| Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1922 - 236 Seiten
...sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages,...and introduces into a much happier state of life, D2 especially now that their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.'... | |
| Sir Charles Prestwood Lucas - 1922 - 242 Seiten
...necessary a branch of commercial interest', and continues: 'To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow subjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to the African savages, a portion of whom it saves... | |
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