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Samuel Wilberforce : A History of the Protestant Episcopal Church in America

'It bears marks of being written by an English Tory High Churchman, the last very abundantly, but there is much in it very striking & elevating. Above all it holds an adequate tone on the subject of slavery'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: G. W. F. Howard, Lord Morpeth      Print: Book

Robert Isaac & Samuel Wilberforce : Life of William Wiberforce

'I am disappointed in the "Life". His dull sons have put in such a quantity of repetition that one is quite weary of the same religious sentiment repeated 50 times over in nearly the same words ... Wilberforce's letters, I think, are not very agreeable or clever, but very sweet (in a good sense).'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Emma Wedgwood      Print: Book

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