Lewis Tappan Quotes

• If you wish to draw off the people from a bad or wicked custom, you must beat up for a march; you must make an excitement, do something that everybody will notice.

  Lewis Tappan

  People, Wicked, Wish

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• If any fall by the hand of violence, others will continue the blessed work.

  Lewis Tappan

  Blessed, Fall, Hands

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• There is too much theology in the Church now, and too little of the Gospel.

  Lewis Tappan

  Church, Littles, Too Much

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• You may imagine the joy manifested by these poor Africans, when they heard one of their own color address them in a friendly manner, and in a language they could comprehend!

  Lewis Tappan

  Color, Joy, Friendly

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• The curiosity to see the prisoners appears to be unabated

  Lewis Tappan

  Curiosity, Prisoner

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• These meetings all have excited great attention, and have been of an exceedingly interesting character.

  Lewis Tappan

  Character, Interesting, Attention

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• The African prisoners are orderly and peaceable among themselves.

  Lewis Tappan

  Prisoner, Orderly

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• One of the men attached to the prison was the occasion of great amusement on the part of the prisoners, as well as the spectators, by taking a large lump of ice to show these strangers from the tropics

  Lewis Tappan

  Men, Ice, Prison

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• Most of the prisoners told the interpreter that they are from Mandingo.

  Lewis Tappan

  Prisoner, Interpreter

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