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Unruly Dog (Paperback)
Bertrand Russell, Edward Snowden, William Hague; Edited by Tony Simpson
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R202
Discovery Miles 2 020
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William Hague has written the life of William Wilberforce who was
both a staunch conservative and a tireless campaigner against the
slave trade. Hague shows how Wilberforce, after his agonising
conversion to evangelical Christianity, was able to lead a powerful
tide of opinion, as MP for Hull, against the slave trade, a process
which was to take up to half a century to be fully realised.
Indeed, he succeeded in rallying to his cause the support in the
Commons Debates of some the finest orators in Parliament, having
become one of the most respected speakers of those times. Hague
examines twenty three crucial years in British political life
during which Wilberforce met characters as varied as Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette, Tsar Alexander of Russia, and the one year old
future Queen Victoria who used to play at his feet. He was friend
and confidant of Pitt, Spencer Perceval and George Canning. He saw
these figures raised up or destroyed in twenty three years of war
and revolution. Hague presents us with a man who teemed with
contradictions: he took up a long list of humanitarian causes, yet
on his home turf would show himself to be a firm supporter of the
instincts, interests and conservatism of the Yorkshire freeholders
who sent him to Parliament. William Hague's masterful study of this
remarkable and pivotal figure in British politics brings to life
the great triumphs and shattering disappointments he experienced in
his campaign against the slave trade, and shows how immense
economic, social and political forces came to join together under
the tireless persistence of this unique man.
Title: Christian greatness: a discourse delivered in the North
Pearl Street Baptist Church, Albany, on Sabbath morning, March
19th, 1854, the day following the funeral solemnities of the Hon.
Friend Humphrey.Author: William HaguePublisher: Gale, Sabin
Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography,
Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a
collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the
Americas, from the time of their discovery to the early 1900s.
Sabin Americana is rich in original accounts of discovery and
exploration, pioneering and westward expansion, the U.S. Civil War
and other military actions, Native Americans, slavery and
abolition, religious history and more.Sabin Americana offers an
up-close perspective on life in the western hemisphere,
encompassing the arrival of the Europeans on the shores of North
America in the late 15th century to the first decades of the 20th
century. Covering a span of over 400 years in North, Central and
South America as well as the Caribbean, this collection highlights
the society, politics, religious beliefs, culture, contemporary
opinions and momentous events of the time. It provides access to
documents from an assortment of genres, sermons, political tracts,
newspapers, books, pamphlets, maps, legislation, literature and
more.Now for the first time, these high-quality digital scans of
original works are available via print-on-demand, making them
readily accessible to libraries, students, independent scholars,
and readers of all ages.++++The below data was compiled from
various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this
title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to
insure edition identification: ++++SourceLibrary: Huntington
LibraryDocumentID: SABCP01398600CollectionID:
CTRG94-B5203PublicationDate: 18540101SourceBibCitation: Selected
Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to
AmericaNotes: Includes correspondence and verse.Collation: 41 p.;
24 cm
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