William Wilberforce (the sociable voice of abolition) [ Politics ]
… of the doubts expressed by such fellow abolitionists as Thomas Clarkson. 5 Never lacking company, he enjoyed the pleasures of fashionable sociability to the full. At Cambridge, he was an extremely popular student thanks to ‘An infinite fund of anecdote, an unvarying fertility of wit, a constant readiness to be pleased and give pleasure’ ( The Life , vol. I, 18). He quickly mastered the art of conversation and this made him both a most welcome … in the Christian values of charity and benevolence, a sociability of the heart that did not forbid relaxation and the pleasures of friendly intercourse. 19 . In Moral Capital, Christopher Brown examines the central issue of motivation (p. …
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