The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. 1 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Life of William Wilberforce, Vol. 1 of 5

Writers, their first feeling was an unwillingness to expose to the public gaze what was so plainly of a confidential character. A life which is worth reading, was the pointed saying of Mack intosh, ought never to have been written. But there are some characters fitted to exert so permanent an influence, and so clearly marked as examples to mankind, that in their case pri vate delicacy yields to public good. Whether the present is one of these excepted instances.

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