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    No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem
    No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem
    No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem
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    No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem

    By James Boswell

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 15, 2013
    No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem
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    James Boswell

    James Boswell (1740-1795) was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer who is best known for his biography of the English writer Samuel Johnson, as well as the publication of his private papers, journals, and letters.

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      No Abolition of Slavery Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem - James Boswell

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      Title: No Abolition of Slavery

      Or the Universal Empire of Love, A poem

      Author: James Boswell

      Release Date: January 15, 2007 [EBook #20360]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY ***

      Produced by Bryan Ness, Louise Pryor and the Online

      Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This

      book was produced from scanned images of public domain

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      .

      NO

      ABOLITION

      OF

      SLAVERY;

      OR THE

      UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE:

      A

      P O E M.

      By James Boswell, Esq.

      Facit indignatio versus. Horat.

      Omnia vincit amor. Ovid.

      LONDON:

      PRINTED FOR R. FAULDER, IN NEW BOND STREET.

      MDCCXCI.

      [Price One Shilling and Sixpence.]

      Entered at Stationer’s Hall

      ERRATUM

      .

      P. 13, l. 7, for mighty read magick.

      TO THE RESPECTABLE BODY

      OF

      WEST-INDIA PLANTERS and MERCHANTS,

      THE FOLLOWING POEM

      IS INSCRIBED BY

      THE AUTHOUR.

      NO ABOLITION OF SLAVERY:

      OR,

      THE UNIVERSAL EMPIRE OF LOVE.

      ADDRESSED TO MISS ——.

      ——Most pleasing of thy sex,

      Born to delight and never vex;

      Whose kindness gently can controul

      My wayward turbulence of soul.

      Pry’thee, my dearest, dost thou read, 5

      The Morning Prints, and ever heed

      Minutes, which tell how time’s mispent,

      In either House of Parliament?

      See T——

      , with the front of Jove!

      But not like Jove with thunder grac’d1, 10

      In Westminster’s superb

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