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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A. APPEAL TO THE PEOPLE OF GREAT BRITAIN ON THE SUBJECT Of CONFEDERATED GREECE. BY THOMAS LORD ERSKINE. LONDON: AN APPEA Several humane and eloquent writers in our public journals, sympathizing with the sufferings of the Greeks, have of late very naturally expressed their surprise and concern, that so little had been done in this country to support them.1 This however may be accounted for without ascribing it to any departure from our benevolent characteristic, or from our distinguished zeal for the advancement of the Christian dispensation, which has been unremittingly and systematically promoted beyond all example in our own times. The Greek Committee of London, often injuriously or mistakenly misrepresented as acting upon party principles, have made the most faithful and disinterested exertions?They invited all persons of property without distinction to act with them: wealthy and public-spirited men (whom I only do not name lest I should offend them) have given large donations; and the free public press, the pride and safeguard of all our privileges, or powers of doing good to others, has, without regard to political partialities or opinions, universally concurred in the support of this interesting and meritorious people: but with all these advantages, great difficulties could not but attend an immediately successful result. When a great and well-attested calamity befalls any deserving individual amongst us, how instantaneous and overflowing is the charitable relief But individual charity can be but of small avail in a case like this, because it is a Nation that is in want. When Hyder Ali made his dreadfully memorable irruption into 1 See a most excellent letter on the subject, signed Sperans, in The Morning Herald. the Canatic, sweep...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217362702 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217362702 |
| Weight | 2.29 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 1.58 In |
| List Price | $52.34 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 718 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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