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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 458 pages
...that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of UNIVERSAL EMACIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been...the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION !* Mr. Curran then proceeded.—Gentlemen, I am not such a fool, as to ascribe any effusion of this...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 3

Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 464 pages
...that the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of UNIVERSAL EMACIPATION. No matter in what language his doom may have been...the irresistible Genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION !* Mr. Curran then proceeded. — Gentlemen, I am not such a fool, as to ascribe any effusion of this...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

1808 - 542 pages
...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...irresistible genius of ' universal emancipation.' [[Here Mr. Curran was interrupted by a sudden burst of applause from the court and hall. Silence howevtr...
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The Edinburgh Review, Volume 13

1809 - 530 pages
...the ground on which he treads is holy, and consecrated by the genius of universal emancipation. Nd matter in what language his doom may have been pronounced...the irresistible genius of universal emancipation.' p. 169, 170. In a speech for Mr Hamilton Rowan, accused of the publication of a seditious libel, he...
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The London Quarterly Review, Volume 1

1810 - 438 pages
...who had a right to demand it ; giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving " Universal Emancipation !" I speak in the spirit of...the irresistible Genius of Universal Emancipation. We think that the application of the image in the concluding sentence of the same speech has been borrowed,...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 3

Thomas Browne (LL.D.) - 1810 - 516 pages
...who had a right to demand it ; giving, I say, in the so much censured words of this paper, giving ' universal emancipation !' I speak in the spirit of...stands redeemed, regenerated, and disenthralled, by the irresist- " ible genius of ' universal emancipation.' [Here Mr. Curran was interrupted by a sudden...
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Quarterly Review, Volumes 1-2

1810 - 924 pages
...liberty may have been cloven down ; — no matter with what solemnities he may have been devoted upon die altar of Slavery ; the first moment he touches the...the irresistible Genius of Universal Emancipation. We think that the application of the image in the concluding sentence of the same speech has been borrowed,...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 358 pages
...in the spirit of the British law, which makes liberty commensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soil — which proclaims, even to the stranger...the irresistible genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. [Here Mr. Curran was interrupted by a sudden burst of applause fromtbe couri and hall After some time,...
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Speeches of John Philpot Curran, Esq: With a Brief Sketch of the ..., Volume 1

John Philpot Curran - 1811 - 368 pages
...speak in the spirit of the British law, which makes libertycommensurate with, and inseparable from, the British soil— which proclaims, even to the stranger...the irresistible genius of UNIVERSAL EMANCIPATION. Uicre Mr. Curran was interruptedly a sudden burst of applause from the court aail hall. After some...
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The Port Folio

1813 - 720 pages
...and inseparable from, the British soil — which proclaims, even to the stranger and the sojourncr, the moment he sets his foot upon British earth, that...the irresistible genius of universal emancipation." Splendid pomp of phraseology; but who thinks now of the blessings of the English constitution? None—...
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