| Theodore Parker - American literature - 1865 - 682 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 finger of God upon the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable... | |
| Charles Bilton - 1866 - 264 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...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,... | |
| James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...understanding or the heart, the same sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of the laws that sanction such a claim ! There is a law above...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 wealth, power,... | |
| John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 284 pages
...appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain yon tell me of laws that sanction such a claim. There...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,... | |
| John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 274 pages
...understanding or to the heart, the sentence is the same that rejects it. In rain you tell me of lairs that sanction such a claim. There is a law above all...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 Stewart Ross - 1869 - 452 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...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 Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...the sentence is the same that rejects it. In vain you tell me of the laws that sanction such a crime! There is a law above all the enactments of human codes,...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,... | |
| Scottish school-book assoc - 1869 - 438 pages
...that sanction such a claim I There is a law1 above all the enactments of human codes — the same1 throughout the world — the same in all times — such as it was' before the daring genius of Columbus1 pierced the night of ages, and opened1 to one world1 the sources of power, wealth,... | |
| John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1870 - 636 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 source of power, wealth,... | |
| John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...rebellion against it. Be the appeal made to the understanding or to the heart, the sentence ia 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,... | |
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