 | Theodore Parker - American literature - 1865 - 682 pages
...law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man." * Calhoun, Clay, Webster, — they were all able men, — long in politics, all ambitious, grasping... | |
 | James Ewing Ritchie - 1866 - 936 pages
...another all unutterable woes. Such it is at this day : it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and...guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man. In vain you appeal to treaties — to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether... | |
 | John McGilchrist - Statesmen - 1868 - 274 pages
...another, all unutterable woes ; — such it is at this day : it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and...guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man. In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and hate blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild...guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain ye appeal to treaties, — to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1868 - 526 pages
...and by that law, unchangeable and eternal — while men despise fraud, and loathe repine, and hate blood — they shall reject, with indignation, the...guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties — to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 930 pages
...slavery. The day has at last come wh.ecj.law and morality join in saying with Lord Brougham, that it is a wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man. I remember, sir, with my friend from Darlington, when the slave hunter bore away his property from the... | |
 | Lewis Tappan - Antislavery movements - 1870 - 456 pages
...heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, they shall reject with indignation, the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man." The agitation of the slavery question in England for many years, in which THOMAS CLARKSON and WILLIAM... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1871 - 232 pages
...; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal — while men despise fraud, and loath rapine, and hate blood — they shall reject with indignation the wild...guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man ! In vain you appeal to treaties, to covenants between nations. The covenants of the Almighty, whether... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Slavery - 1871 - 564 pages
...law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise frand and loathe rapine and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man." 1 Granville Sharp did not rest from labor. The Humanities are not solitary. Where one is found, there... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1872 - 534 pages
...law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud and loathe rapine and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy that man can hold property in man."1 It has been sometimes said that the finest sentence of the English language is that famous description... | |
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... at this day : it is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man ; and by that law, unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they shall reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy,... 
