 | Charles Phillips - Biography - 1822 - 434 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the God sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body...swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of univeremancipation.... | |
 | Arminianism - 1849 - 700 pages
...principle of English law, that (to quote Curran) " the moment a slave touches the sacred soil of Britain, his soul walks abroad in her own majesty, his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled : " William Wilberforce, who led the attack... | |
 | Oratory - 1822 - 116 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar, and the God sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of bis chains, that burst from around him, and he stands redeemed, emancipated, dis-en. thralled, by irresistable... | |
 | John Mathew Gutch - 1822 - 584 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells beyond the measure of the chain:! that burst around him, and he stands redeemed and regenerated !" 94 • • ' This is the... | |
 | Martin Archer Shee - Censorship - 1824 - 258 pages
...to reverence man," the land, on touching whose shore, (in the eloquent words of Curran) "The slave swells beyond the measure of his chains, that burst...around him, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disinthralled! ! !" / HOHENDAHL (going to the side-scene.) My servants, there ! Audacious railer !... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - English prose literature - 1824 - 794 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; on {Here Mr. Curran was interrupted by a tudden burst of applause from the courtcmd hall, which was repeated... | |
 | Thomas O'Connor - English literature - 1824 - 180 pages
...sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad-in her own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure...regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresistible genius ef Universal Emancipation. [Here Mr. Curran was interrupted by a sudden burst of applause from the... | |
 | 1825 - 508 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar nnd the god sink together in the dust ; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body...the irresistible genius of Universal Emancipation." f Mr. Shell has related the following anecdote : — ' They put to sea at night ; but, a gale of wind... | |
 | John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body...disenthralled, by the irresistible genius of Universal Empancipation. • • .- ••i.:.•..•• .-'til §:.. i'•* '•"".*i Hi win-' Cicero for Milo.... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - Readers, American - 1828 - 266 pages
...first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty ; his body...stands redeemed, regenerated and disenthralled, by the irresistable genius of ' universal emancipation." ON AN ADDRESS TO THE THRONE. CHATHAM. In the course... | |
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... -,—no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery; the first moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in her own majesty; his body swells... 
