 | George Francis Train - 1857 - 522 pages
...growing poison; gain seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people. Among the several writers who have taken up the subject, none seem to defend it ; all unite in decrying... | |
 | George Francis Train - 1857 - 658 pages
...growing poison ; gain seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my Among the several writers who have taken up the subject, none seem to defend it ; all unite in decrying... | |
 | William Reid - 1858 - 184 pages
...flowing poison : gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people." But to conclude — AVhocver may oppose the movement in favour of the legislative suppression of this traffic,... | |
 | Julius Jeffreys - 1858 - 432 pages
...flowing poison : gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people ! " Here was a heathen ruler reading a lesson in morality to a Christian government ! — a severe... | |
 | Julius Jeffreys - 1858 - 440 pages
...flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes ; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people!" Here was a heathen ruler reading a lesson in morality to a Christian government ! — a severe and... | |
 | 1858 - 784 pages
...trade should be legalized, by which the government revenue would be improved. The emperor replied, "Nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my p«»opie." The new emperor, it appears, is less scrupulous — be bas legalized the trade at 40 taels... | |
 | Baptist Wriothesley Noel - 1859 - 504 pages
...flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes; but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people."! And in 1853, the young Emperor, though then greatly in want of money, and told that he might raise... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...and corrupt men will, for their own profit and sensuality, defeat jny wishes; bat nothing will indue* me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.' Hear this, O Christian Englishmen! whose Chancellor of the Exchequer, in the late Crimean war, laid... | |
 | E. N. Elliott, David Christy, Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Thornton Stringfellow, Robert Goodloe Harper, James Henry Hammond, Samuel Adolphus Cartwright, Charles Hodge - 1860 - 934 pages
...flowing poison. Gain-seeking and corrupt men will, for profit and sensuality, defeat my wishes, but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people."* Let us revert a moment to the case of robbery, before cited, in farther illustration of this subject.... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1860 - 282 pages
...flowing poison ; gain-seeking and corrupt men will for profit and sensuality defeat my wishes, but nothing will induce me to derive a revenue from the vice and misery of my people.' The finances of the United Kingdom do not admit, we fear, of such scruples being entertained. Year... | |
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IT IS TRUE, I CANNOT PREVENT THE INTRODUCTION OF THE FLOWING POISON; GAIN-SEEKING AND CORRUPT MEN WILL, FOR PROFIT AND SENSUALITY, DEFEAT MY WISHES ; BUT NOTHING WILL INDUCE ME TO DERIVE A REVENUE FROM THE VICE AND MISERY OF MY PEOPLE. 
