A Preliminary Essay, on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa: Consisting of Animadversions on the Impolicy and Barbarity of the Deleterious Commerce and Subsequent Slavery of the Human Species : to which is Added, A Desultory Letter Written to Napoleon Bonaparte, Anno Domini, 1801author, 1804 - 282 pagini |
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Pagina 16
... ruin or vestige Nay , a traveller is at a of them is to be seen . loss to ascertain the spot on which they stood . Now as much as ever that great and good Being , who has the disposal of all persons and all events , and who is the ...
... ruin or vestige Nay , a traveller is at a of them is to be seen . loss to ascertain the spot on which they stood . Now as much as ever that great and good Being , who has the disposal of all persons and all events , and who is the ...
Pagina 43
... ruin join , And truth is scorn'd ! By all the perjur'd line , Their crimes transcend , all crimes since Noah's flood ; Their guilty glories soon shall set in blood . They swear by heav'n , then spill their brother's gore ; Lo , view my ...
... ruin join , And truth is scorn'd ! By all the perjur'd line , Their crimes transcend , all crimes since Noah's flood ; Their guilty glories soon shall set in blood . They swear by heav'n , then spill their brother's gore ; Lo , view my ...
Pagina 74
... ruin of their empire . Are not such events recorded for ex- amples and warnings to us ? When we recollect the equity and humanity with which heathen na- tions , such as the Athenians , behaved towards their slaves , and on the other ...
... ruin of their empire . Are not such events recorded for ex- amples and warnings to us ? When we recollect the equity and humanity with which heathen na- tions , such as the Athenians , behaved towards their slaves , and on the other ...
Pagina 160
... ruin . Is not this the plain purport of our Saviour's words - Behold , I send unto you " pro- " phets , and wise men , and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify , and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues , and ...
... ruin . Is not this the plain purport of our Saviour's words - Behold , I send unto you " pro- " phets , and wise men , and scribes ; and some of them ye shall kill and crucify , and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues , and ...
Pagina 167
... ruin ; the ruin of nations and of individvals . Is there not national as well as personal pride ? Do PRELIMINARY ESSAY . 167.
... ruin ; the ruin of nations and of individvals . Is there not national as well as personal pride ? Do PRELIMINARY ESSAY . 167.
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A Preliminary Essay on the Oppression of the Exiled Sons of Africa Thomas Branagan Vizualizare fragmente - 1969 |
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Africans Almighty ANNO DOMINI appear attended authority Babylon barbarities Behold blood blush brutes cause cerning Christendom Christian civil colonies colour commerce conduct crimes cruel cruelty degree despots disgrace dreadful duty earth effects enslaved Europe evil expence eyes fatal favoured favoured nations feel fellow creatures forbear former France French French consul friends friends of humanity gentlemen glory groans hand happy heaven Herodotus honour human nature impunity inhabitants inhuman instances Jamaica Jerusalem Jews Judea labour latter liberty ligion mankind manner master ment mercy mind miseries monster moral murdered Napoleon Bonaparte nation negroes never oppressed oppressors person poem political prosperity punishment Quashi race recollect religion religious render ruin situation slave-trade slavery soul species suffer thee thing thou thousand tical tion tism treated tremble tural tyrants unhappy slaves vengeance West-Indies woes wretched slaves
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Pagina 253 - Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
Pagina 160 - Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes : and some of them ye shall kill and crucify ; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city...
Pagina 144 - For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light : the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
Pagina 145 - It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation ; neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there ; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there ; but wild beasts of the desert shall lie there ; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures ; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there ; and the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces ; and her time is near to come, and her days...
Pagina 153 - And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.
Pagina 151 - ... eye shall be evil toward his brother and toward the wife of his bosom and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave...
Pagina 151 - And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Pagina 151 - And after threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself; and the people of the prince that shall come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary; and the end thereof shall be with a flood, and unto the end of the war desolations are determined.
Pagina 272 - I. Men are born, and always continue, free and equal in respect of their rights. Civil distinctions, therefore, can be founded only on public utility. II. The end of all political associations is the preservation of the natural and...
Pagina 144 - And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees' excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there. But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and Satyrs shall dance there.