 | John Alexander Logan - 1886 - 912 strani
...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 strani
...it? — giving, I say, in the so-much-censured words of this paper— giving universal emancipation ? I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...stranger 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... | |
 | Thomas M'Cullagh - 1891 - 430 strani
...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... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 472 strani
...demand it; giving, I say, in the somuch censured words of this paper, giving "universal emancipation!" I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of "universal... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 474 strani
...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... | |
 | Henry Hardwicke - 1896 - 546 strani
...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 strani
...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...stranger and the sojourner the moment he sets his foot upon British earth that the ground upon which he treads is holy and consecrated by the genius of universal... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1900 - 376 strani
...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 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
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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 the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads... 
