 | William O. Blake - Slave trade - 1857 - 934 pages
...other parts of the world. If we listened to the voice of reason and duty this night, some of us might live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame. We might live to behold the natives engaged in the calm occupations of industry, and in the pursuit... | |
 | Dawson Massy - Emperors - 1863 - 522 pages
...superior, either in morals, in knowledge, or in refinement, to the rude inhabitants of the coast of Guinea Some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture,...calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which...calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1867 - 460 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which...calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Leone Levi - England - 1872 - 642 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue, this night, the line of conduct...engaged in the calm occupations of industry, in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking... | |
 | Scotland free church, gen. assembly - 1874 - 862 pages
...of oratory, once thrilled the hearts of assembled senators »ith plowing utterances like these : — "Some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture" (the slave trade), " from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret; we may live to see natives... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which...calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and e repeal of the Stamp Act." I suppress for a moment...falsehood, lusness, and absurdity of this most audacious just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...have been permitted, at a much more early period, to enjoy. If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which...calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | African Americans - 1877 - 410 pages
...und (our) their full natural functions should remain intact and undisturbed?"* William Pitt said : " We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in the calm occupation of industry and in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce ; we may behold the beams... | |
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If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives... 
