 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - 1918 - 632 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...British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment he sets foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
 | 1861 - 806 strani
...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,... | |
 | Stephen Coleridge - 1923 - 290 strani
...beside Curran's memorable outburst in the trial of Rex v. Hamilton Rowan : " 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,... | |
 | Albert Jeremiah Beveridge - 1928 - 342 strani
...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 strani
...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... | |
 | Owen Lovejoy - 2004 - 504 strani
...eulogized, and justly, the British common law. I read an extract from the celebrated speech of Curran:12 "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... | |
 | C. Bradley Thompson - 324 strani
...the sentence is the same that rejects it." And Curran, in words of burning eloquence, shall reply: "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, that the ground on which... | |
 | Bob Ostertag - 2007 - 244 strani
...lawyer and statesman who advocated for the emancipation of British Catholics from civil disabilities. "I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soul— which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojoumer, the moment he sets foot... | |
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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... 
