unenslaved

VVhen the ſtates of Europe learn to diſtinguiſh their true intereſts, vvhen they eſtabliſh a firm baſis of union among themſelves; then, and then only, can they hope to ſee their arms directed againſt the common enemies of mankind; to ſee their commerce uninterrupted, their people uninſlaved by the refuſe of the earth!

1777 October 6 (date written), Eyles Irwin, “Letter II. [Monday, 6th October [1777].]”, in A Series of Adventures in the Course of a Voyage Up the Red-Sea, on the Coasts of Arabia and Egypt, and of a Route through the Desarts of Thebais, hitherto Unknown to the European Traveller, in the Year M.DCC.LXXVII. […], London: […] J[ames] Dodsley, […], published 1780, →OCLC, page 386

This hour, among the proudest, boldest, wisest, within the borders of Paganism, there lives not a man, unenslaved by the lowest delusion. The soothsayer, the interpreter of dreams, the sacrificer, the seller of the remnants and dust of the dead, the miserable pretender to magic; those are the true rulers of the haughty empire—those are the sceptre-bearers, […]

1828, [George Croly], chapter XXI, in Salathiel. A Story of the Past, the Present, and the Future, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 362