 | American literature - 1854 - 604 pages
...the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! 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 of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one... | |
 | Charles Grandison Parsons - Enslaved persons - 1855 - 334 pages
...orators, "Be the appeal made to the understanding or the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,...same throughout the world, — the same in all times, — and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loath rapine, and abhor... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Sermons, American - 1855 - 464 pages
...bondage ; of his haughty scorn of any Law higher than what trading politicians enact in the Capitol ? " There is a Law above all the enactments of human codes, the same throughout the world, the same in all time ; " " it is the law written by the L_ finger of God upon the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable... | |
 | Robert Clarke (schoolmaster.) - 1855 - 190 pages
...is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a Ian 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 of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one... | |
 | Gerrit Smith - Speeches in Congress - 1855 - 442 pages
...the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain, you tell me of laws, that sanction such a crime ! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes...same throughout the world — the same in all times — such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...the right; I acknowledge not the property. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,...it is the law written by the finger of God on the hearts of men ; and by that law. unchangeable _ and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...the right ; I acknowledge not the property. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim. There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,...it is the law written by the finger of God on the hearts of men ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine,... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 440 pages
...acknowledge not the property. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim. There is a law ahove all the enactments of human codes, the same throughout...it is the law written by the finger of God on the hearts of men ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine,... | |
 | Henry Brougham Baron Brougham and Vaux - Great Britain - 1857 - 462 pages
...the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! 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 of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one... | |
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... at this day. It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man... 
