Rich and poor, churchmen and dissenters, had adopted the measure.

Even grocers had left off trading in the article, in some places.

In gentlemen's families, where the master had set the example, the servants had often voluntarily followed it; and even children, who were capable of understanding the history of the sufferings of the Africans, excluded, with the most virtuous resolution, the sweets, to which they had been accustomed, from their lips.

By the best computation I was able to make from notes taken down in my journey, no fewer than three hundred thousand persons had abandoned the use of sugar.
Having travelled over Wales, and two thirds of England, I found it would be impossible to visit Scotland on the same errand.

I had already, by moving upwards and downwards in parallel lines, and by intersecting these in the same manner, passed over six thousand miles.