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A French grammar - Page 400
by Charles Jean Delille - 1851 - 472 pages
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...thus defends him for having professed that his object was to procure ' Universal Emancipation. ' ' I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...British soil ; which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojoumer, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is...
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Forensic Eloquence: Sketches of Trials in Ireland for High Treason, Etc ...

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1804 - 408 pages
...Diving, 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 liberty commensurate with and inseparable from theBritish soil ; which proclaims even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment be sets his foot...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...; 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 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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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...the so much censured words of this paper, giving " UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION !" — I speak in the spint 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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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Oratory - 1808 - 542 pages
...it; giv-. ing, 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 the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is...
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An Essay on Light Reading: As it May be Supposed to Influence Moral Conduct ...

Edward Mangin - Books and reading - 1808 - 240 pages
...celebrated Mr. Curran, in the course of one of his splendid orations, thus expressed himself: • ' I speak in the spirit of the ' British law, which makes liberty com* meflsurate with, and inseparable from * British soil; which proclaims to the 'stranger and the...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

English literature - 1809 - 530 pages
...some doctrines which the silent approbation of the minister seemed io have adopted.' p. 122, 123. - I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes...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 is...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...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 the sojourner, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that the ground on which he treads is...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - Ireland - 1811 - 358 pages
...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 liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soil — which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojourner, the moment he sets his...
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The Port Folio

Philadelphia (Pa.) - 1813 - 716 pages
...metaphor. Curran says, " Giving, in the so much censured words of this paper, " Universal emancipation!" I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soi! — which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojourncr, the moment he sets his...
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