Thomas Babington
Thomas Babington
Thomas Babingtonwas an English philanthropist and politician. He was a member of the Clapham Sect, alongside more famous abolitionists such as William Wilberforce and Hannah More. An active anti-slavery campaigner, he had reservations about the participation of women associations in the movement...
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Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.
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When some traveller from New Zealand shall, in the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge to sketch the ruins of St Paul's.
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