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These views were further articulated in his 1791 sermon, "The Injustice and Impolicy of the Slave trade".

An Essay on the Impolicy of a Bounty on the Exportation of Grain, 1804.

Beginning with a fair show of justice on either side, the masters stultified their cause by obstinate impolicy, and the men disgraced their order by acts of outrage.

In 1788 Clarkson published his Essay on the Impolicy of the African Slave Trade (1788), which was printed in large numbers.

Throughout 1589 and 1590 he was seeking, in correspondence with Burghley, to convince the latter of the impolicy of adopting Whitgift's theory of the divine right of bishops.

When he heard what exactly had happened to the Boston, he was inclined to execute him, but Jewitt persuaded him of the impolicy of this, because it would lead to further attacks on other ships visiting.

In an argument no doubt intended to be attractive to Manchester's merchants and employers - local abolitionists had specifically asked him to write on the impolicy of slavery and the slave trade - he declared that freedom produced cheaper labour than slavery.

Mr. Wyse, in his History of the Catholic Association, says: "The entire object of his long life seems to have been to redeem it [his country] from the self-ignorance, the blind impolicy, the national degradation to which it had been reduced.

In reply, Mr. Bennett had something to say about the fox that had suffered tailwise from a trap, and thereupon advised all other foxes to cut their tails off; and he pointed the fable by setting forth the impolicy of drawing down upon the Association the vengeance of the Herald.