 | Bernard Burke - 1850 - 630 strani
...that has always characterised England as a nation. It was in allusion to this that Curran said : — " I speak in the spirit of the British Law which makes liberty inseperable from and commensurate with British soil ; which proclaims, even to the stranger and sojourner,... | |
 | Charles Phillips - 1851 - 464 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 British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal... | |
 | Henry Martyn Field - 1851 - 388 strani
...the spirit of English liberty in a passage which has become one of the commonplaces of literature : "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... | |
 | John Celivergos Zachos - 1851 - 570 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 British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal... | |
 | Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 506 strani
...any other nation. — M°CULLOCH'S Statistical Account of the British Empire. The Land of the Free. 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,... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1853 - 566 strani
...feature of British legislation, which forbids the existence of slavery in England, he thus burst forth: " 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... | |
 | Alfred G. Havet - 1853 - 446 strani
...other nation. — (M'CuLLOCii'e Statistical Account of the British Empire.) X.— THE LAND OF THE FREE. I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...British soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and sojourner, the moment be sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy,... | |
 | Peter Burke - 1854 - 358 strani
...of human nature." — Part of the Inscription on GRANVILLE SHARP'S Monument in Westminster Abbey. " 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... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - 1854 - 478 strani
...famous episode on the alleged seditious phrase of " universal emancipation." " I speak," said he, " in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty...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... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - 1854 - 460 strani
...demand it ; giving, I say, in the so-much-censured words of this paper, " Universal Emancipation ! " 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 on 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... 
