 At length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air, at the root of an old tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice, on a fit occasion, in the House of Commons, of my intention to bring...  The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 1341862Full view - About this book
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce - 1838 - 892 pages
...and persuaded him not to bring our missionaries forward, that their labours might not be impeded." undertake its conduct, as a subject suited to my character...Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the subject in the preceding... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - Abolitionists - 1838 - 424 pages
...and persuaded him not to bring our missionaries forward, that their labours might not be impeded." undertake its conduct, as a subject suited to my character...Commons of my intention ' to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the subject in the preceding... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1838 - 594 pages
...length, I well remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Pitt's, at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the...Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." ' — • vol. i. pp. 150, 151. He did so; but over-exertion in preparing his mind for the arduous... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 596 pages
...length, I well rememberafter a conversation in the op'en air at the root of an old tree at Holvrood, jatt above the steep descent into the vale of Keston, I...Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward.'" The little allusions to scenery afford a key to Mr. Wilberforce's happiest tastes. No man had a keener... | |
 | Robert Isaac Wilberforce, Samuel Wilberforce - Biography & Autobiography - 1839 - 558 pages
...undertake its conduct, as a subject suited to my character and talents. At length, I well remem-' her, after a conversation in the open air at the root of...Commons of my intention to bring the subject forward." In the spring of 1787, Mr. Clarkson, who had published a Prize Essay upon the subject in the preceding... | |
 | Gardening - 1907 - 524 pages
...Wilberforce's diary of the year 1788 : — " At length I well remember after a conversation with Mr. Pitt in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood,...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the slave trade." These words are engraved on a stone chair which Earl Stanhope... | |
 | Mary E. Bennett - Adventure and adventurers - 1848 - 212 pages
...in the open air at the root of an old tree at Halwood, just above the steep descent into the vale at Keston, I resolved to give notice on a fit occasion...Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward." This was done on May the llth, 1789, in a speech which Burke styled " masterly, impressive, eloquent,"... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1882 - 644 pages
...length I well remember, after a conversation with Mr. Pitt, in the open air, at the right of un oM tree at Holwood, just above the steep descent into...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the slave trade." This incident in Wilberforce's life, taking place near this... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1915 - 560 pages
...Diary : — 1788. At length, I well remember, after a renversāt ion with Mr. Pitt in the open air at Holwood, just above the steep descent into the...occasion in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the slave trade. Westminster. — William Wilberforce was buried in the north... | |
 | Caspar Morris - 1857 - 782 pages
...remember, after a conversation in the open air at the root of an old tree at Holwood, (Pitt's residence,) just above the steep descent into the vale of Keston,...Commons, of my intention to bring the subject forward." His public avowal of this determination was followed by the organization of a meeting, held on the... | |
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