| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...his slave. I deny his rights, — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...heart, the sentence is the same, that rejects it. before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the source... | |
| Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...in his slaves. I deny the right; I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of the laws that sanction such a crime! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes, — the... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...his slaves. I deny his right, I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings, of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...understanding! or to the heart, the sentence is the same1 that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws1 that sanction such a claim I There is a law1 above... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...common nature rise in rebellion against - Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the lieart, sentence is the same that rejects it. . In vain you tell me of that .-unction such a crime ! There is a law above all the ' "»•» iietments of human codes, —... | |
| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right, — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the...the same throughout the world, the same in all times : .... it is the law written on the heart of man by the finger of his Maker ; and by that law, unchangeable... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...his slaves. I deny his right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the...to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence ia the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a law... | |
| School board readers - 1872 - 328 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right—I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. Be the...! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes—the same throughout the world, the same in all times—such as it was before the daring genius... | |
| Denis Caulfield Heron - Jurisprudence - 1873 - 128 pages
...which would admit of being regarded as a general law for all acting beings. And Lord Brougham says — There is a law above all the enactments of human codes...same throughout the world — the same in all times — it is the law written by the finger of God upon the heart of man. CHAPTER III. POLITICAL ECONOMY... | |
| William Wells Brown - African Americans - 1874 - 576 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right; I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings, of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim." John Philpot Currau followed, in one of the finest speeches ever made in behalf of the rights of man.... | |
| William Forsyth - Criticism - 1874 - 482 pages
...his slaves. I deny the right — I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature, rise in rebellion against it. Be the...the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain 1 The news of the burning of Moscow had arrived in Liverpool by that day's, post. C you tell me of... | |
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