The Life of William Wilberforce, Band 4J. Murray, 1839 |
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66 My dear Abolition affectionately Africa Archbishop Babington Bishop bless breakfast Buonaparte called cause Christian Committee dear friend dear Stephen Diary Dined Duke East India effect favourable fear feel French give Grenville Hayti hear heard heart Henry Thornton honour hope hour House of Commons James Stephen Kensington Gore kind late letter London Lord Bathurst Lord Castlereagh Lord Grenville Lord Liverpool Lord Sidmouth Lord Wellesley Macaulay Madame de Stael meeting mercy mind ministers moral morning motion Muncaster negociation ness never night parliament party peace Perceval poor prayer Prince principles question Registry Bill religion religious remember Roman Catholics Sandgate scarcely Slave Trade spirit spoke Stephen Esq Sunday sure talk Talleyrand tells thankful thing thought tion to-day told treaty trust West Indian Wilberforce Esq William Wilberforce wish writing wrote Yorkshire
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Seite 123 - I do not know,' he often said, ' a finer instance of the moral sublime, than that a poor cobbler working in his stall should conceive the idea of converting the Hindoos to Christianity ; yet such was Dr. Carey. Why, Milton's planning his Paradise Lost in his old age and blindness was nothing to it. And then when he had gone to India, and was appointed by Lord Wellesley to a lucrative and honourable station in the college of Fort William, with equal nobleness of mind he made over all his salary (between...
Seite 102 - The truth is," he tells Mr. Hey, " and a dreadful truth it is, that the opinions of nine-tenths, or at least of a vast majority, of the House of Commons would be against any motion which the friends of religion might make...
Seite 125 - He spoke three hours, but nobody seemed fatigued: all, indeed, were pleased, some with the ingenious artifices of his manner, but most with the glowing language of his heart. Much as I differed from him in opinion, it was impossible not to be delighted with his...
Seite 397 - ... of a future state. When he was in the House of Commons, he seemed to have the freshest mind of any of those there. There was all the charm of youth about him, and he is quite as remarkable in this bright evening of his day, as when I saw him in his glory many years ago.
Seite 40 - And he concludes by observing : " If I could have placed this power fairly in media, I would have conquered, or endeavoured to conquer, all my other feelings of reluctance. But to place it, and to engage to maintain it in his hands, in whose it now is, and then to place myself under it, would have been not only a sacrifice of pride, but an extinction of utility."* The refusal clearly proceeded upon personal grounds. He felt that his
Seite 167 - I have met with in this country ; I have always heard that he was the most religious, but I now find that he is the wittiest man in England.
Seite 301 - As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are thy ways higher than our ways, and thy thoughts than our thoughts...
Seite 111 - Parliament of the present day, of the ignorance of both Houses — " I will only 'add, that your Lordship can scarcely conceive (if I may judge of the House of ' Lords from the general condition of the members of the House of Commons) ' how ignorant their Lordships in general are likely to be regarding India, and ' therefore how little they are qualified to ask questions in Committee.
Seite 328 - How can the honourable member talk thus of those religious principles on which the welfare of the community depends? I would fain believe that he desires as sincerely as I do myself to perpetuate to his country the blessings she enjoys. But if I could be base enough to seek the destruction of those institutions which we both profess to revere, I would tell him what instrument I would choose.
Seite 310 - Samuel, I am anxious to see decisive marks of your having begun to undergo the great change. I come again and again to look to see if it really be begun, just as a gardener walks up again and again to examine his fruit trees...