William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… more and more in the cares of this fashionable world, may, on the contrary, help to speed you in the race of glory and honour and immortality (…)’. 10 As a matter of fact, the threat of unsociability – at the time of his ‘conversion’ or … of having delivered our country from the greatest of her crimes and rescued her character from the deepest stain of dishonour’ ( An Appeal 108-109). His enactment of the Christian hero’s virtues did not estrange him from true politeness 20 …
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