"If you wish to draw off the people……" — Lewis Tappan
"If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice."
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16 Quotes by Lewis Tappan
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If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.
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The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.
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Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.
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The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated
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One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners,…
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There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.
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You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them…
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These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.
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We will persevere, come life or death.
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The prisoners eyed the clothes some time, and laughed a good deal among themselves before they put them on.
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Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking…
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They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died.
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