"The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England……" — William Edward Hartpole Lecky
"The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations."
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20 Quotes by William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.
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The period of Catholic ascendancy was on the whole one of the most deplorable in the history of the human…
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In proportion to its power, Protestantism has been as persecuting as Catholicism.
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There are times in the lives of most of us, when we would have given all the world to be…
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Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of…
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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of…
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Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked.
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I venture to maintain that there are multitudes to whom the necessity of discharging the duties of a butcher would…
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The simple record of these three short years of active life has done more to regenerate and soften mankind than…
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