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left but little room to expect his recovery : and he professed with an air of great satisfaction , that at the same time , his sickness seized him , he was seized with the hopes of having / as hd expressed it , got his discharge . " Death , " said he , " is no more to me , than it is for a weary traveller , after a hard day ' s
j ourney 5 to undress and go to bed . Some considerations , T confess , might plead for my stay in the world awhile , but they cannot prevail with me to desire to live : I only desire , if Providence see fit to continue me , that I may submit . " At another time he declared , that " he had not one uneasv thought about
himself : death , " he said , " is no awful thing to me , but will be a happy remove to the Church above , where I have long beendesirous to be . " He told his own son-in-law , who attended him as physician ^ a . nd desired permission to call in other advice , that he was willing he should use what means he judged necessary : but then added , " Doctor , I shall pray against you /*
He droptmany other such expressions ; and designed to have left behind him a solemn testimony to the great truths of the Christian religion : but he was so enfeebled and his spirits were so weakened by the severity of his disease , that he fbiind himself unable to dictate what he wished to say . It may be easy to conceive , for he was attacked on Saturday and died early on the next Thursday morning . He was , however , perfectly sensible to the last ; and then departed not only with comfort and peace in his own mind , but without a struggle or a groan .
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Lzbera iion of Negroes in England * 345
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Sir , Looking at your account of the African Institution , p . 22 Oof the present volume , I perceive that you have notfully stated the proceedings respecting the vote of thanks to Mr . Granville Sharp . I first proposed to thank that venerable philanthropist " forhis opposition to the System of Negro Slavery " which necessarily included his exertions for the Abolition of the Slave Trade , Some fears were expressed that the Institution might appear to encourage an immediate emancipation of slaves in
• LIBERATION OF NEGROES 11 ST ENGLAND .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), July 2, 1807, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2382/page/5/
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