He is made to stand in an attitude of the most earnest address to Heaven, in the course of which, with the fatal dagger in his hand, he breaks forth in the following words: "To you this unpolluted blood I poor, To you that spirit, which ye gave, restore."
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson
It had hitherto confined itself to the keeping of its own members unpolluted by any gain from their oppression.
"The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the African Slave Trade by the British Parliament (1808), Vol. I"
Thomas Clarkson
Towards the evening of this day, we were able to go out of the building, and breathe the unpolluted air for a few minutes.
"The New Book Of Martyrs"
Georges Duhamel