 | John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 pages
...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 pages
...ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure — to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the Church, the reclaiming of three millions of mefl from bondage, and giving liberty to all who have a right to demand it? — giving, I say, in the... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 474 pages
...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... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1902 - 462 pages
...ious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure; to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the Church, the reclaiming...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 the British... | |
 | Richard Barry O'Brien - 1904 - 266 pages
...sentence upon men bold enough and honest enough to propose that measure — to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the Church, the reclaiming...say, in the so much censured words of this paper, ' universal emancipation ' ? I speak in the spirit of British law, which makes liberty commensurate... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - 1905 - 458 pages
...upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure; to propose the redeeming of religion from tbe abuses of the Church, the reclaiming of three millions...and giving liberty to all who had a right to demand it—giving, I say, in the so-much-censured words of this paper, " Universal Emancipation ? " I speak... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan - 1906 - 278 pages
...ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ; to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the Church, the reclaiming...had a right to demand it — giving, I say, in the so-muchcensured words of this paper, "Universal Emancipation ? ' ' I speak in the spirit of the British... | |
 | 1861 - 806 pages
...alterations which we have in these pages. Thus Curran's grandiloquent apostrophe to British freedom :—" I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with and inseparable from life British soil; which proclaims even to the stranger," <tc., is toned down, bnt hardlv improved,... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 342 pages
...county seat where court was to be held.2 1 In his narrative Ficklin here quotes this celebrated passage: '"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... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1872 - 378 pages
...which had been asserted by the United Irishmen, and denounced by the Crown officers as treasonable. ' 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... | |
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... justice over bigotry and oppression, should have a stigma cast upon it by an ignominious sentence upon men bold and honest enough to propose that measure ; to propose the redeeming of religion from the abuses of the church — the reclaiming of three... 
