Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet: With Selections from His CorrespondenceJ. Murray, 1848 - 600 pages |
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... period the favourite resort of George III . , and the King and royal family frequently visited Mrs. Buxton . Her grandchildren always retained a vivid impression of the cordial kindness of their royal guests . At the age of fifteen ...
... period the favourite resort of George III . , and the King and royal family frequently visited Mrs. Buxton . Her grandchildren always retained a vivid impression of the cordial kindness of their royal guests . At the age of fifteen ...
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... period he had become acquainted with John , the eldest son of Mr. Gurney , of Earlham Hall , near Norwich , with whose family his own was distantly connected , and , in the autumn of 1801 , he paid his friend a visit at his father's ...
... period he had become acquainted with John , the eldest son of Mr. Gurney , of Earlham Hall , near Norwich , with whose family his own was distantly connected , and , in the autumn of 1801 , he paid his friend a visit at his father's ...
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... period between school and manhood . They were eager for improvement - I caught the infection . I was resolved to please them , and in the College of Dublin , at a distance from all my friends , and all con- trol , their influence , and ...
... period between school and manhood . They were eager for improvement - I caught the infection . I was resolved to please them , and in the College of Dublin , at a distance from all my friends , and all con- trol , their influence , and ...
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... period in a letter to one of his sons , then under the roof of a private tutor : " You are now at that period of life , in which you must make a turn to the right or to the left . You must now give proofs of principle , determination ...
... period in a letter to one of his sons , then under the roof of a private tutor : " You are now at that period of life , in which you must make a turn to the right or to the left . You must now give proofs of principle , determination ...
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... period contain no direct mention of religion , yet the Christian principles which his mother had instilled into his mind retained their influence over him ; while his natural firmness of character enabled him to disregard the taunts to ...
... period contain no direct mention of religion , yet the Christian principles which his mother had instilled into his mind retained their influence over him ; while his natural firmness of character enabled him to disregard the taunts to ...
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abolition Africa afterwards Anti-slavery blessing Caffre cause Christ Christian colonies committee Cromer Cromer Hall dear death debate delight duty Earlham emancipation England exertions Expedition feel felt Fowell Buxton Gasparoni give Government hand happy hear heart Hoare honour hope Hottentots House J. J. Gurney Jamaica Joseph John Gurney labour letter London look Lord Lord Althorp Lord Glenelg Lushington Macaulay Mauritius meeting mercy mind missionaries morning motion Negroes never Niger night Northrepps Northrepps Hall o'clock object Parliament party planters pray prayer prisons question received religion Samuel Hoare sent shooting Sir Fowell Sir George Murray Sir James Mackintosh Slave Trade slavery Society speech spirit Spitalfields success tell thank thee thing THOMAS FOWELL BUXTON thou thought told town truth West Indian West Indies Weymouth Wilberforce wish writes yesterday Zachary Macaulay
Popular passages
Page 585 - Gentile sinners, ne'er forget The wormwood and the gall ; Go spread your trophies at his feet, And crown him Lord of all.
Page 590 - Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?
Page 320 - ... if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noon-day : and the Lord shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones : and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.
Page 542 - Therefore will we not fear, though the earth be moved, and though the hills be carried into the midst of the sea.
Page 47 - Almighty God, Father of all mercies, we thine unworthy servants do give thee most humble and hearty thanks for all thy goodness and loving-kindness to us and to all men : we bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life ; but above all, for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ, for the means of grace and for the hope of glory.
Page 61 - We are told that the heart of man is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked.
Page 518 - And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.
Page 115 - Father, who wouldest not the death of a sinner but rather that he should turn from his wickedness and live...
Page 181 - Mark but my fall and that that ruin'd me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels; how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by it? Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty.
Page 132 - That this House is anxious for the accomplishment of this purpose, at the earliest period that shall be compatible with the well-being of the slaves themselves, with the safety of the colonies, and with a fair and equitable consideration of the interests of private property.