The triumphs of Christinity illustrated by history, a lecture1883 |
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Страница 8 - And then shall he depart from thee, both he and his children with him, and shall return unto his own family, and unto the possession of his fathers shall he return.
Страница 9 - Ye shall have one manner of law, as well for the stranger, as for one of your own country : for I am the LORD your God.
Страница 40 - I see not how you can go through your glorious enterprise in opposing that execrable villainy, which is the scandal of religion, of England, and of human nature. Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils, but if God be for you who can be against you?
Страница 41 - The House was little less affected by Sir Samuel Romilly's address. When he entreated the young members of parliament to let this day's event be a lesson to them, how much the rewards of virtue exceeded those of ambition ; and then contrasted the feelings of the Emperor of the French in all his greatness with those of that honoured individual, who would this day lay his head upon his pillow and remember that the Slave Trade was no more ; the whole House, surprised into a forgetfulness of its ordinary...
Страница 9 - But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.
Страница 36 - On that day, the master of the ship called together a few of the officers, and stated to them, that if the sick slaves died a natural death, the loss would fall on the owners of the ship ; but if they were thrown alive into the sea on any sufficient pretext of necessity for the safety of the ship, it would be the loss of the underwriters...
Страница 32 - they are a loving, uncovetous people, so docile in all things, that I assure your Highnesses I believe in all the world there is not a better people, or a better country : they love their neighbours as themselves, and they have the sweetest and gentlest way of talking in the world, and always with a smile...
Страница 26 - Thus in yet pagan times, general kindliness of disposition, habits of domestic intercourse, perhaps the suggestions of selfinterest, may have tended to raise the condition of the serf even to the restoration of freedom : but it was the especial honour and glory of Christianity, that while it broke the spiritual bonds of sin, it ever actively laboured to relieve the heavy burthen of social servitude. We are distinctly told that Bishop Wilfrid, on receiving the grant of Selsey from Caedwealha of Wessex,...
Страница 10 - ... with which they were often treated. An accidental murmur, a cough, a sneeze, was punished with rods. Mute, motionless, fasting, the slaves had to stand by while their masters supped. A brutal and stupid barbarity often turned a house into the shambles of an executioner, sounding with scourges, chains and yells. One evening the Emperor Augustus was supping at the house of Vedius Pollio, when one of the slaves, who was carrying a crystal goblet, slipped down and broke it. Transported with rage,...
Страница 41 - There is something," he replied, " not a little provoking in the dry, calm way in which gentlemen are apt to speak of the sufferings of others. The question suspended ! Is the desolation of wretched Africa suspended ? Are all the complicated miseries of this atrocious Trade — is the work of death suspended ? No, sir, I will not delay this motion, and I call upon the House not to insult the forbearance of Heaven by delaying this tardy act 46 Diary, Jan. 22.