 | James Boswell - 1807 - 526 pages
...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,...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 - 1816 - 500 pages
...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,...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
...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,...and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be '•——to (but the gates of mercy on mankind." Whatever may have passed... | |
 | 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...and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be '• — — to s luit (be gates of mtrcj on mankind." Whatever may hare... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 520 pages
...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,...their own country, and introduces into a much happier stale of life ; especially now when their passage to the West Indies and their treatment there is humanely... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 418 pages
...only be robbery to an innumerable class of our fellow-subjects ; but it woukTbe extreme cruelty to the African Savages, a portion of whom it saves from massacre,...and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to " shut the gates of mercy on mankind." Whatever may have passed elsewhere... | |
 | James Boswell - 1822 - 458 pages
...t>e 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...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 - 1826 - 416 pages
...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,...and their treatment there is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be to shut the gates of mercy on mankind. Whatever may have passed elsewhere... | |
 | 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...and their treatment there, is humanely regulated. To abolish that trade would be, ' Toshut the gates of mcrcyon mankind.'" But it is not merely as a curiosity,... | |
 | John Riland - 1827 - 270 pages
...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...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 ;... | |
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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,... 
