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
| Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 σελίδες
...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 upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy and consecrated by the genius of... | |
| Edward Gibson Baron Ashbourne - 1898 - 466 σελίδες
...Dealing with the point of the publication proposing emancipation to all religious creeds, he said : ' I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...he sets his foot upon British earth that the ground upon which he treads is holy and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. No matter in... | |
| Charles Sumner - 1900 - 376 σελίδες
...her mercy too." It inspired Curran to a burst of eloquence, grand, and familiar to all who hear me. " 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... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament - 1900 - 992 σελίδες
...speak on this subject with great eloquence, I will close these remarks. " I speak " — said he — " in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty...British soil, which proclaims, even to the stranger and sojourner the moment lie sets his foot on British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
| 1902 - 698 σελίδες
...Task," Book ii.: "The Timepiece," l, 40. Later John Philpot Curran amplified the idea in these words: "I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...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... | |
| Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 462 σελίδες
...all who had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so-much-censured words of this paper, " Universal Emancipation ? " I speak in the spirit of...makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from the British soil — which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his... | |
| Van Vechten Veeder - 1903 - 656 σελίδες
...extinguished, the people enslaved, and the prince undone." [What a contrast is this with 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... | |
| Richard Barry O'Brien - 1904 - 266 σελίδες
...in the so much censured words of this paper, ' universal emancipation ' ? I speak in the spirit of British law, which makes liberty commensurate with...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,... | |
| William Jennings Bryan - 1906 - 278 σελίδες
...to all who had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so-muchcensured words of this paper, "Universal Emancipation ? ' ' I speak in the spirit...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... | |
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