William Wilberforce/Source:Wikipedia This past Saturday, Adam and I were invited by a friend of mine and her husband to attend an interdenominational church service that was featuringEric Metaxasas a guest speaker! (Bonus:Christopher Duffley, who is blind and autistic, sang at the beginning of...
Details | Preview Title:A Practical View of Christianity Author:William Wilberforce Year:1797 (2005 impression) 370 pages; 5.5" x 8.5" $14.99 (paperback) Details | Preview Title:The Abolition of Man: C.S. Lewis’s Classic Essay on Objective Morality- A Critical Edition by Michael Ward ...
and the Rhetoric of Sensibility reads poetry by Thomas Day, William Cowper, and Hannah More, novels by Sarah Scott, Laurence Sterne, and Henry Mackenzie, life writing by Ignatius Sancho and Olaudah Equiano, and political writing by James Ramsay, Thomas Clarkson, and William Wilberforce. ...
Also at the edge of Holwood Estate are the remains of an oak tree attributed to William Wilberforce, the scene of a discussion he held in 1788 with Mr Pitt (the Prime Minister), the conclusion of which was to set about the abolishment of the slave trade in the United Kingdom. On ...
Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist by Karen Swallow Prior, about the Victorian-ear British societal reformer, high-class cultural leader, educator, writer, and friend of the famous politician William Wilberforce.) I think this is very, very important ...
The Essay led to the creation of an informal committee to lobby MPs (nine of the original twelve members were Quakers) which succeeded in recruiting William Wilberforce. Clarkson was asked to investigate proceedings in the ports of London, Bristol, and Liverpool, and supply abolitionists with ...
Not unlike the famous Clapham community that former around William Wilberforce we realized we needed to be – as the saying went in those days –“living together in a world falling apart.” That is, house-holding in intentional community, living communally, or at least as near-by neighbors ...
influential ancient Greek statesman, many US presidents, including George Washington, most rich Romans and ancient Greeks, not many British, they tended to have money invested in trading, and so we come to wonderful William Wilberforce, and his supporters who battled so long to abolish the slave...
perusal of these valuable records, may satisfy themselves of the truth of the assertion, that, such as we have stated it, was the Christianity of those times, by consulting our Articles and Homilies, or even by carefully examining our excellent Liturgy." Real Christianity, William Wilberforce (...
Books About Books 1. Andrews, William Loring. ENGLISH XIX CENTURY SPORTSMAN BIBLIOPOLE AND BINDER OF ANGLING BOOKS. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1906, 8vo., paper-covered boards. xviii, 60, (10) pages. $ 450.00 First edition, limited to 157 copies. (Mejer 644; Brenni...