 | James Boswell - 1816 - 500 pages
...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 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 - 1817 - 536 pages
...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...regulated. To abolish that trade would be '•——to (but the gates of mercy on mankind." Whatever may have passed elsewhere concerning it, the Honee of... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 550 pages
...portion of whom it eaves from massacre, of intolerable bondage in their own country, and introduce* into a much happier state of life ; especially now...regulated. To abolish that trade would be '• — — to s luit (be gates of mtrcj on mankind." Whatever may hare passed elsewhere concerning it, the Honer... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1822 - 458 pages
...continued, would not only t>e robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it would be extreme cruelty to the African 'Savages, a portion...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... | |
 | 1826 - 870 pages
...it would be extreme cruelty to the African sä vages; a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially...humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be, ' Toshut the gates of mcrcyon mankind.'" But it is not merely as a curiosity, that I think this passage... | |
 | John Riland - Enslaved persons - 1827 - 272 pages
...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...and introduces into a much happier state of life." ' Pretty well,' said I, ' for one side ; but we may just as well now read Dr. Johnson's argument ;... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...continued, would not only be rMtry to an innumerable с lass of our fellow»xibjecte ; but it would be mach happier state of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies, and their treatment... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...only be -obbery to an innumerable class of our fellow• abjects; but it would be extreme cruelty .' . the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable 1 miniage in their own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life ; especially now when... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 592 pages
...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...country, and introduces into a much happier state of life j especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely regulated.... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1835 - 590 pages
...not only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellowsubjects, but it would be extreme cruelty to African savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre, or intolerable bondage in (heir own country, and introduces into a much happier state of life; especially now when their passage... | |
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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,... 
