 | Harriet Elizabeth Beecher Stowe - African Americans - 1853 - 588 pages
...LIBERTY. " No matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of Slavery, the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust, and he stands redeemed, regenerated, and disinthralled, by the irresistible genins of universal emancipation.''... | |
 | Peter Burke - Law - 1854 - 358 pages
...nature." — Part of the Inscription on GRANVILLE SHARP'S Monument in Westminster Abbey. " I speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty...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... | |
 | Sir John Thomas Gilbert - Dublin (Ireland) - 1854 - 478 pages
...famous episode on the alleged seditious phrase of " universal emancipation." " I speak," said he, " in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty...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... | |
 | Education - 1854 - 406 pages
...that the ground on which he treads is holy and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation 1 No matter in what language his doom may have been...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... | |
 | Conrad Hume Pinches - Elocution - 1854 - 460 pages
...no matter in what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have. burned upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle...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... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...matter ш what langnage his doom may have- bien pronounced; the first moment he touches the sä reu soil of Britain, the Altar and the God sink together...the dust; his body swells beyond the measure of his cnains, that burnt Iroin ar.iuii'i him; hi» soul walks abroad in her own majesty; and he stands redeemed,... | |
 | John Philpot Curran - Trials - 1872 - 632 pages
...British earth, that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of UNIVEESAL EMANCIPATION. No matter in what language his doom...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...down — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery —the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust, his soul walks abroad in its own majesty, his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, which burst... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1872 - 246 pages
...down — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon the altar of slavery — the moment he touches the sacred soil of Britain, the altar and the god sink together in the dust; his soul walks abroad in its own majesty ; his body swells beyond the measure of his chains, which burst... | |
 | Robert French - 1873 - 358 pages
...— no matter what complexion, incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burned upon him ; — no matter in what disastrous battle...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... | |
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No matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced ;—no matter what complexion incompatible with freedom, an Indian or an African sun may have burnt upon him ;— no matter in what disastrous battle his liberty may have been cloven down -,—no... 
