...was owing to prejudice, and imperfect or false information. The wild and dangerous attempt which has for some time been persisted in to obtain an act of...at once, had not the insignificance of the zealots vno vainly took the lead in it made the vast body of planters, mer chants, and others, whose immense...

...prejudice, and imperfect or false information. The wild and dangerous attempt which has for sometime been persisted in to obtain an act of our Legislature,...and others, whose immense properties are involved in the trade, reasonably enough suppose that there could be no danger. The encouragement which the attempt...

...was owing to prejudice, and imperfect or false information. The wild and dangerous attempt which has ll things to themselves.) It also procureth delight,...beauty, but their rarity ; as juggling tricks, not for the trade, reasonably enough suppose that there could be no danger. The encouragement which the attempt...

...servant. Boswell wishes to enter his " most solemn protest " against " the wild and dangerous attempt ... to abolish so very important and necessary a branch of commercial interest " as the Slave Trade. It would involve robbery to our fellow-subjects, and "it would be extreme cruelty...

...regard it as ' zeal without knowledge '. He wrote of ' the wild and dangerous attempt' to procure an act to abolish 'so very important and necessary a branch of commercial interest', and continues: 'To abolish a status, which in all ages God has sanctioned, and man has continued, would...

...condescension, convinced that they must be "owing to prejudice, and imperfect or false information." The attempt to "abolish so very important and necessary a branch of commercial interest" was nothing less than "wild and dangerous"; it constituted not merely "robbery to an 7Quoted in Donald...

...Boswell protested against "the wild and dangerous attempt" of "zealots" who were agitating in Parliament "to abolish so very important and necessary a branch of commercial interest." He believed that Wilberforce was leading an unwarranted attack on property rights. To his economic...

...understand his wise friend's support of the "wild and dangerous attempt" being made "to obtain an act of ... Legislature, to abolish so very important and necessary a branch of commercial interest" (155). Like Reeve, Boswell is under the false but apparently widespread impression that the "peculiar...

...The wild and dangerous attempt, which has for some time been persisted in, to obtain an set of onr legislature to abolish so very important and necessary...crushed at once, had not the insignificance of the aealots, who vainly took the lead in it, made the vast body of planters, merchants, and others, whose...

...system which they extol: — BOSWELL ON THE SLAVE TRADE. " The wild and dangerous attempt that has for some time been persisted in to obtain an act of...once, had not the insignificance of the zealots who took the lead in it made the vast body of planters, merchants, and others, whose properties are involved...