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Portraits of Public Characters, by the Author of 'random Recollections'.
Portraits of Public Characters by the Author of 'random Recollections' Author:James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1841 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IX. PHILANTHROPISTS. MR. THOMAS CLARKSON -- SIR CHARLES FORBES MR. JOSEPH STURGE MR. WILLIAM ALLEN. Mr. Thomas Clarkson, the distinguished friend of the slaves, is a gentleman whose name would be placed by universal consent at the head of a list of the philanthropists of the present day, were a proposal made to draw up such a list . He is one of those whose feelings, principles, and actions, confer a pure and permanent lustre on human nature. The contemplation of such a character as his, is really and unspeakably refreshing amidst the vices, the selfishness, and indifference to human suffering, which ever and anon meet our eye wherever we direct our steps, and in whatever society it is our lot to mingle. 'cessful and renowned military The lustre of a Wellington's less itself compared with the lich surrounds the name of The triumphs -- if so they -- of the " hero of a hundred 'ved amidst an appalling effu- id a frightful destruction of 10 shall compute the number lost their sons on the field of who were rendered widows -- ho were bereft of their fathers, f the protracted war in which d all his military glory ? Little personally sufferers, dream, in of the moment, and while the ughtless populace were rending als of rejoicing at the victories my bosoms, in the villages and md, were, at the same moment, ng and sorrowing, at the loss of dearest relatives. Not so with hieved by Thomas Clarkson. victory he gained was on the To witness a whole public life, and that public life providentially prolonged to an unusually advanced period -- for Mr. Clarkson is now in his eig...« less