 | Arthur Compton Auchmuty - 1895 - 172 pages
...question of the Slave-trade before the House of Commons. On his deathbed, in 1833, he exclaimed, " Thank God that I should have lived to witness a day...give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery."—Thomas Clarksonvizs the son of a clergyman and grammar-school master at Wisbeach, Cambs.... | |
 | John Fletcher Hurst - Church history - 1900 - 1022 pages
...indemnification of £20,000,000. " Thank God," cried Wilberforce, " that I should have lived to witness the day in which England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery !" When the dawn came to the negroes it was celebrated not by dissipation, but by religious worship.... | |
 | Henry Montagu Butler - Great Britain - 1909 - 346 pages
...champion of the cause received the news, he exclaimed, " Thank God that I should have lived to see a day in which England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery ! " The two next days, Saturday and Sunday, he was a dying man, and on Monday morning, July 29, he... | |
 | Jack Ernest Shalom Hayward - History - 1985 - 222 pages
...it sheds fresh light on William Wilberforce's famous dying words on 26 July 1833: Thank God that I have lived to witness a day in which England is willing...give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery.'46 Does it not make Wilberforce seem to have been, at the least, an extremely equivocal Emancipationist... | |
 | Jim Ryun, Ned Ryun, Drew Ryun - History - 2002 - 328 pages
...he heard the news, Wilberforce declared, "Thank God that I should have lived to witness a day when England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery." 37 The very next day, Wilberforce grew suddenly weaker. Early on the morning of July 29, he whispered... | |
 | Kevin Belmonte - Biography & Autobiography - 2009 - 355 pages
...up his mantle had done the job of winning the hearts and minds of the nation. "Thank God," he said, "that I should have lived to witness a day in which England is willing to give £20,000,000 for the Abolition of Slavery." The £20,000,000 was a sum set aside to essentially purchase... | |
 | Henry Wheeler - Abolitionists - 2007 - 244 pages
...Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord !" On hearing the result of the Bill—" Thank God," he said, " that I should have lived to witness a day in which England is willing to give £20,000,000 sterling for the abolition of slavery." Often has he been heard to say, " After I have... | |
 | Charles Colson - Religion - 2010 - 451 pages
...the British Empire, Wilberforce died. "Thank God," he whispered before he slipped into a final coma, "that I should have lived to witness a day in which England was willing to give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery!" The story of Wilberforce's... | |
 | William Hague - Abolitionists - 2007 - 644 pages
...obtained ... as much as the youngest and most partisan could have done'.13 'Thank God,' said Wilberforce, 'that I should have lived to witness a day in which...give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery."6 The Bill's passage meant that from August 1834 the 800,000 slaves in the colonies of the... | |
 | North American review and miscellaneous journal - 1850 - 552 pages
...Wilberforce, expired. He died, thanking God that he should have lived to witness the day in which England was willing to give twenty millions sterling for the abolition of slavery. He died as he had lived, full of joy from the abundance of his gratitude. Since the days of the Great Commoner,... | |
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that I should have lived to witness a day in which England is willing to give twenty millions sterling for the Abolition of Slavery. 
