 The destinies of the human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forests, which have roused Greece...  Critical and Miscellaneous Essays - Page 41by Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1843Full view - About this book
 | Theology - 1835 - 700 pages
...followed him into this wilderness ;" or, as a late writer in the Edinburgh Review has said, " they are those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forest, which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of 2000 years, and which, from one... | |
 | 1835 - 932 pages
...race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their...thousand years ; and which, from one end of Europe lo the other, have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees... | |
 | Theology - 1831 - 700 pages
...forest*, which hare roosed Greece from the slaYery and degradation of SOOO rear*, and which, from nne end of Europe to the' other, have kindled an unquenchable fire in the heart* of the oppressed, and loosed the knee* of the oppressors with a strange and unwonted fear !... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Authors - 1844 - 334 pages
...staked on the same MILTON. cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles, which have since worked their...from one end of Europe to the other, have kindled an unquenchahle fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees of the oppressors with .a strange... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1844 - 614 pages
...race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Tticn were first proclaimed those mighty principles, which have since worked their...thousand years, and which, from one end of Europe to the oiher, have kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees of the... | |
 | Richard Rush - Great Britain - 1845 - 696 pages
...human race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their...unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed." 28* the proceedings had taken the shape of a bill of pains and penalties, which a Committee of the... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1846 - 782 pages
...staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those might}' as constantly on the decline. Unbelief made extensive...the Catholic countries of Europe, and in •erne other, hare kindled an unquenchable fire in the hearts of the oppressed, and loosed the knees of the... | |
 | 1846 - 492 pages
...their constitution ; and as a more recent and eloquent writer observes, " then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their way into the depths of the American forest, — which have roused Greece from the slavery and degradation of two thousand years, — and... | |
 | 1856 - 666 pages
...race were staked on the same cast with the freedom of the English people. Then were first proclaimed those mighty principles which have since worked their...into the depths of the American forests, which have raised Greece from the slavery and degradation of 2000 years, and which, from one end of Europe to... | |
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