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Example sentences for "philanthropists"

Lexicographically close words:
philandering; philanthropic; philanthropical; philanthropies; philanthropist; philanthropy; philatelic; philatelists; philippic; philippics
  1. Philanthropists are commonly grave, occasionally grim, and not very rarely morose.

  2. It might be feared that the practical philanthropists would feel that they lost by his counsels.

  3. He invited the anti-slavery lecturers into his church, and helped philanthropists of other denominations in their work.

  4. You know how your brother philanthropists and capitalists of Colorado worked it.

  5. A pretty spectacle, you philanthropists getting the teamsters down and gouging them.

  6. At the general election of 1832, Sadler was defeated by Macaulay for the new borough of Leeds, but his mantle fell on Lord Ashley, afterwards Earl of Shaftesbury, one of the noblest philanthropists of modern times.

  7. Born in 1800, the son of Zachary Macaulay, who like many other philanthropists was on the tory side, he was early converted to the whig party.

  8. One of the earliest of such philanthropists was Stephen Girard, whose life-story is unusually interesting and inspiring.

  9. It will be found that the slaves of the South are not, as a body, so desirous of freedom, not so consciously intent upon the attainment of that boon, as ardent philanthropists at the North have supposed.

  10. It was visited by all the philanthropists of the day.

  11. To the casual observer the above query is easy of solution, but it is at the same time engaging the profoundest attention and thought of the wisest statesmen, and the greatest philanthropists and humanitarians.

  12. If the philanthropists and rich men of the country will hold up the hands of such Negroes as Booker T.

  13. If he is, then in what light shall we regard the philanthropists of this country North and South who have done and are doing so much for the Negro's elevation?

  14. Mr. Hawkins has been one of the most successful educators of the South and has raised large sums of money by public canvass among the philanthropists of the country.

  15. Since the emancipation of the Negro in this country philanthropists have contributed largely to the establishment of schools and colleges for his education.

  16. The scheme of the philanthropists to whom we have referred, is to take the surplusage from the towns and to send them to the country.

  17. In order to discover a proper remedy, we ought in every case to direct our primary attention to the nature and origin of the disease; and this is precisely what our modern philanthropists neglect to do.

  18. Vigilant philanthropists do exist, I will allow; but it is in such small numbers as to effect little on the whole, and nothing at all when opposed by the zeal of a mercenary opposition.

  19. The earnest and sanguine philanthropists might be pardoned the simplicity of not foreseeing such an opposition, though they ought, perhaps, to have known better than to be surprised at the phenomenon.

  20. Liberia, which was the gift of philanthropists of Baltimore to American freed slaves, was, no doubt, inspired by this earlier effort.

  21. They are well known as men upright in affairs, and as philanthropists and humanitarians of the common-sense type.

  22. We call upon philanthropists and all men who have means to invest for the cause of Association, to come and see us, and understand our situation, our means and our intentions.

  23. I don't like your kid-glove philanthropists meddling in matters they don't understand.

  24. I don't like these kid-glove philanthropists mixing themselves up in practical labour disputes they don't understand.

  25. Through the labours of Wilberforce, Clarkson, and other philanthropists, the slave-trade was therefore abolished: it remained for future philanthropists to emancipate those on whose naked limbs the shackles were fastened.

  26. Philanthropists had long deplored the state of our statute-book, more than two hundred crimes being defined by it as worthy of death.

  27. The triumph served as an encouragement to the philanthropists to persevere in the cause of humanity; and from this time the number of their converts and their means daily increased.

  28. The natural instinct of man is to evil, and when I read in little tracts and clerical addresses of the awful depravity of the 'heathen in our midst,' I am tempted to ask what the reverend gentlemen and shocked philanthropists expect.

  29. A friend of one of these malicious philanthropists dined with him one day, and afterward related an anecdote illustrative of his character.

  30. Our racial organization must encourage the philanthropists of the world to remember the white people of the South in the distribution of their wealth for benevolent purposes.

  31. The philanthropists within the race may be confidently relied upon to do all that may be justly expected of them in the matter.


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