 | William Pitt - 1806 - 488 páginas
...slaves; we continue it even yet in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions to civilisation. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time almost... | |
 | William Pitt - 1806 - 476 páginas
...slaves: * e Continue it even yet in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions to civilization. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth-,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at presenti But in the lapse of a long series ef years, by a progression slow, and for a time,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 páginas
...slaves ; we continue it even yet in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions to civilisation. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time,... | |
 | William Pitt, W. S. Hathaway - 1808 - 496 páginas
...debased ii our morals, as degraded iii our understandings, sis "these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time, almost .imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements, favoured above measure in the gifts of Providence, unrivalled... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1809 - 572 páginas
...slaves: we continue'it even yet in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions to civilization. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression slow, and for a time,... | |
 | Leman Thomas Rede - 1826 - 348 páginas
...slaves: we continue it even yet, in spite of all our great and undeniable pretensions to civilization. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present. But in the lapse of a long series of years, by a progression, slow, and for a time... | |
 | American Colonization Society - 1828 - 612 páginas
...proposed for the regeneration of the children of Africa, Mr. Pitt in reply to it exclaimed, "We Britons were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present." The work is doubtless too great to be entirely effected by this 3ociety,by the most... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1830 - 266 páginas
...yet, in pite of all our great pretensions. We were nee as obscure among the nations of the earth, s savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as tiese unhappy Africans. But iu the lapse of a sng series of years, by a progression slow, and sr a... | |
 | 1832 - 952 páginas
...to this hour as barbarians; for we continue to this hour a barbarous traffic in slaves. We continue it even yet, in spite of all our great pretensions....progression slow, and for a time almost imperceptible, we have become rich in a variety of acquirements. We are favoured above measure in the gifts of providence,... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 páginas
...proposed for the regeneration of the children of Africa, Mr Pitt, in reply to it, exclaimed, ' We Britons were once as obscure among the nations of the earth,...degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans are at present.' The work is doubtless too great to be entirely effected by this Society, by the most... | |
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it even yet, in spite of all our great pretensions. We were once as obscure among the nations of the earth, as savage in our manners, as debased in our morals, as degraded in our understandings, as these unhappy Africans. But in the lapse of a long series... 
