 | William Pitt - 1806 - 476 pages
...our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at presenti But in the lapse of a long series ef years, by a progression slow, and for a time, almost imperceptible, we have become ricfj in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence,... | |
 | William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - Great Britain - 1808 - 496 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, -as these un-- happy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time, almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time, almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | William Pitt - 1806 - 488 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in thegifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | Scottish periodicals - 1832 - 952 pages
...of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans. But in the lapse of a long...progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements. We are favoured ubove measure in the gifts of providence,... | |
 | Charles Webb Le Bas - 1836 - 572 pages
...true foundation and only rational object of all political societies." Pitt's Speeches, Feb. 1792. " In the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of D 42 design,... | |
 | William Augustus Gordon Hake - 1840 - 164 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time, almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | Saxe Bannister - Great Britain - 1849 - 320 pages
...circumsiance by which a Roman mighi have characierized us, and by which we now characierize Africa. Bui in ihe lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a iime almosi impercepiible, we have become rich in a varieiy of acquiremenis, favoured above measure... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But, in the lapse of a long series of years, by a...progression slow, and, for a time, almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favored above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
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We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow,... 
