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... the country shone forth in the excellence of her virtue and strength, and defeated the invaders, and pre. served from slavery those who dwell within the limits of Heracles. Bat afterwards there occurred violent earth- quakes and floods, and in a ...

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... it was never known bow many thousands perished after the city was actually taken. Ninety thousand persons were sold into slavery, and Jose- 1 phus estinmates that the number of Jews who perished by famine, pestilenceand the sword, during the siege, at ...

THE WHITSUNTIDE EXHIBITION AT THE BOTANICAL GARDENS

... as the most fearful in the world, and thought few gold seekers would return from there alive. The only way to get rid of slavery in Western Africa was to establish an international treaty prohibiting the exportation to the natives of arms and ammunition ...

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... languages, and from ir in one language to another. Subsequently the advocacy of peace, popular advancement, the abolition of slavery, ,an; ocean penny postage, the improvement of agriculture, and ,,up other movements, became, from time to time, the objects ...

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... especially, anxious to return to ciijilised life, and look upon the condition from which they have escaped as worse than slavery. This is but the com- mencement of the downfall of polygamy in America, and the triumph of civilisation will be all the more ...

LITERARY NOTICES

... simple, Set Devotion spirit, making all the difference between hey manly religioasneeand cant. The illosion, also, to the anti-slavery movement in Liverpool, and Its 11ng champion in the person of or illustrious Roa- hat coe, is in the happiest tone and ...

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... Your rnoralfe improves; you become frank and cordial,hoepitable and single-minded; the hypo- critical politeness and the slavery of civilisationt are loft behind you in the sity. Your senses are quickened ; they ,ey get require no stimulants hut air and ...

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... thli esatitn is (if I- clay, a Ipart is of bronze. Tile clay is his then)- h logical sienclation, the bronze is his anti- e slaver-y Ocitin. On snch tihenmis uls the [adlur' . of the1 UmythiCal thleory of StlranUS-, Mr. Cook h r Ev'tt'-s Ixith unmsiaitaliale ...

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... which is the attraction of the mental universe. It possesses a power, the progiressioI of whiel will grade- nilly banish slavery, tyranny, war, disease, and vice from the world, and unite mankind in one great brotherhood. ARTIsICeAL TusEra.-Most of us ...

REVIEW

... 1soprrs ,of a loatilkorne captivity, briefly but movingly described -byThuc'ydide~s. Most of them, were ultimately sold'into slavery; :and that hlhtorianinforms us t~iitatbut fewever xturaed to thaii Dxti~ 'copuntry. .A roman~tic ciroumatanoe connectsd that ...

MR. GLADSTONE AND RITUALISM

... question at issue was, in any sense one of decency and of order., It is a question of doctrine involv- iug the freedoti and the slavery of the human mind. Behind that blaze of candles, behind the splendid altar, behind those gorgeous robes, and tlsose clouds ...