I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is... Curran and His Contemporaries - Σελίδα 165των Charles Phillips - 1851 - 595 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
| Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 σελίδες
...all who had a right to demand it ; giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving 'UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION !' I speak in the spirit of...British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - 1881 - 524 σελίδες
...giddy rabble Bore me, in triumph, home. Ay! — look upon me. — I know thy sight aches at me. 11. I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...soil ; — which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
| James Paterson - 1882 - 546 σελίδες
...Secretary of the United Irishmen, for seditious libel, had this splendid burst : " I speak in the spirit of British law, which makes liberty commensurate with...British soil, which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
| James L. Ohlson - 1883 - 154 σελίδες
...had a right to demand it ? — giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving ' Universal Emancipation ! ' I speak in the spirit of...soil ; — which proclaims, even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
| Charles John Plumptre - 1883 - 622 σελίδες
...the giddy rabble Bore me, in triumph, home. Ay !—look upon me.— I know thy sight aches at me. 11. I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, British soil;—which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British... | |
| John Edwin Nixon - 1885 - 256 σελίδες
...had a right to demand it; giving, г-, I say, in the so mvreh censured words of this paper, giving "Universal Emancipation"? I speak in the spirit of...and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon 30 British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy. No matter in what language his doom may... | |
| John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 σελίδες
...without destroying Slavery. ' ' He quoted the sublime language of Curran * touch* In these words : " I speak in the Spirit of the British law, which makes Liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner the moment he sets his foot... | |
| 1887 - 958 σελίδες
...have a right to demand it? — giving, I say, in the so-much-censured words of this paper— giving universal emancipation ? I speak in the spirit of...and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon the British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal... | |
| Thomas M'Cullagh - 1891 - 430 σελίδες
...beyond the Atlantic, and in the southern hemisphere. Like his eloquent countryman Curran, he spoke " in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty...commensurate with and inseparable from British soil." His ceaseless activity was a marked characteristic in Sir William's life. How he managed to keep so... | |
| Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 474 σελίδες
...consequences or the indelible reproach." The eloquent passage on Universal Emancipation reads as follows : " I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soil — which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner the moment he sets foot... | |
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