| Robert Bruce Warden - Governors - 1874 - 888 pages
...fundamental principle of slavery, that man may be the subject of property. ' There is,' he exclaimed, ' a law above all the enactments of human codes; the...same in all times ; such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| Christian life - Bible - 1874 - 446 pages
...angels and by men : Grant us the same to sing by faith, Both now, and at the hour of death. REFLECTIONS. ""THERE is a law, above all the enactments of human...same throughout the world — the same, in all times. It is the Jaw written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and... | |
| Robert Bruce Warden - Governors - 1874 - 872 pages
...fundamental principle of slavery, that man may be the subject of property. ' There is,' he exclaimed, ' a law above all the enactments of human codes; the same throughout the world, the same in til times ; such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened... | |
| William Wells Brown - African Americans - 1874 - 576 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In 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.... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1875 - 232 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that...same in all times ; such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1875 - 566 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that...claim. There is a law above all the enactments of Inn n.-ii i codes, — the same throughout the world, the same in all times : .... it is the law written... | |
| Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...the heart, the sentence is the same — that rejects it ! In vain you tell me of laws that sanetion such a claim ! There is a law, above all the enactments...same in all times : such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced- the night of ages, and opened, to one world, the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| Thomas Morrison (LL.D.) - 1878 - 328 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that...same in all times ; such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pierced the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| William Mathews - Orators - 1878 - 476 pages
...appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it, In v»ta you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim ! There...in all times. — such as it was before the daring genius of Columbus pien-od the night of ages, and opened to one world the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| William Mathews - Orators - 1878 - 464 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of laws that sanction such a claim 1 There is a law above all the enactments of human codes, — the same throughout the world, the same... | |
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