The George tavern was situated in Dogwell Court, and some little time after the abolition of the vicious privileges of Alsatia by the Act 8 and 9 William III, c. 27 (1697), it was converted into the printing office of William Bowyer, the elder.

The manner in which the "Twister" (No. 4) was used savours very much of the brutal, and, indeed, the injuries it inflicted on those who were misguided enough to struggle when in its grasp caused its abolition in Great Britain.

He said, that although slavery was repugnant to his feelings, he must vote against the abolition as visionary and delusive.

He would next consider the effects of the abolition on those places where it was chiefly carried on.

But now I find myself drawn into the vortex of abolition to the extent of helping off four fugitive slaves.

To indicate the character of the book, it may suffice to mention the one fact, that the story of Kronos devouring his children is explained as arising out of the existence of cannibalism in the earliest times and its abolition by king Zeus.

"The enemies of abolition had," he said, "always confounded abolition with emancipation.

This he did, but he was greatly disappointed at the result; there was not one member, out of all those with whom he conversed, who had not been canvassed by the planters' committee; and though most of them had been proof against all its intrigues and artifices, yet many of them hesitated respecting the abolition at that moment.

Since slavery is abolished to our own colonies, and we see the good which results from the measure, we go for abolition throughout the world.

His testimony was, that the estate was better cultivated since abolition than before, and that it is far easier to control the laborers, and secure uniformity of labor under the present system.

The joy we ought to feel on its abolition from a contemplation of the nature of it; and of the extent of it; and of the difficulty of subduing it.

While these things were going on, it devolved upon me to arrange all the evidence on the part of the abolition under proper heads, and to abridge it into one volume.

For I had my weekly duty to attend at the committee for the abolition during this interval.

He wished for complete abolition without payment.

Whether it be doomed to a sudden extinction, or to a gradual abolition through economical causes, this war will not leave it where it was before.