 | William Pitt - 1806 - 476 pagina’s
...may live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in the calm occupations of iadustry, in, the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and... | |
 | 1807 - 592 pagina’s
...Africa engaged in the occupations of industry, in the- pursuits of a just and legitimate coniT merce ; we may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon that land, which at some happy period in still later times may blaze with full lustre, and joining... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 586 pagina’s
...we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa, (Greece,) engaged in the calm occupations of industry, in the...behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in on their land, which, at some happy period in still later times, may blaze with full lustre ; and joining... | |
 | James Robins - 1824 - 490 pagina’s
...may live to see the reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in...in the pursuits of a just and legitimate commerce. \Ve may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, which at some happy... | |
 | 1829 - 686 pagina’s
...may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in...the calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1834 - 600 pagina’s
...may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in...science and philosophy breaking in upon their land, where at some happy period, in still later times, they may blaze with full lustre — and, joining... | |
 | Robert Cox - 1836 - 434 pagina’s
...may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in...the calm occupations of industry, in the pursuits of just and legitimate commerce. We may behold the beams of science and philosophy breaking in upon their... | |
 | Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - 1840 - 322 pagina’s
...may live to see a reverse of that picture, from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret ; we may live to behold the natives of Africa engaged in the calm occupations of industry, and in the pursuit of a just and legitimate commerce ; we may behold the beams * Wilberforce's Life,... | |
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If we listen to the voice of reason and duty, and pursue this night the line of conduct which they prescribe, some of us may live to see a reverse of that picture from which we now turn our eyes with shame and regret. We may live to behold the natives... 
