 THE SACRED RIGHTS OF MANKIND ARE NOT TO BE RUMMAGED FOR AMONG OLD PARCHMENTS OR MUSTY RECORDS. THEY ARE WRITTEN, AS WITH A SUNBEAM, IN THE WHOLE VOLUME OF HUMAN NATURE, BY THE HAND OF THE DIVINITY ITSELF ; AND CAN NEVER BE ERASED OR OBSCURED BY MORTAL...  Representative Phi Beta Kappa Orations - Página 96editado por - 1915 - 500 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
 | George Bancroft - 1884
...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself ; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1884
...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886
...charters. It was retorted that New York had no charter. . " The sacred rights of mankind," he rejoined, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. Civil liberty... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - 1886
...WEBSTER** (1N "AMERICAN STATESMEN " SERIES), AND "STUDIES IN HISTORY" "The &acred right* of mank1nd are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...musty records. They are written, as with a sunbeam, 1n the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1861
...Hamilton, one of the founders of the Republic, said, are not to he rummaged for among parchments. ' They are written as with a ' sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of ' the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by ' mortal power.' The time... | |
 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - 1887 - 972 páginas
...honorable friend the Chairman of the Committee will remember, to the Tory farmer of Westchester : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or dusty records. They are written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of... | |
 | William Henry Seward - 1888
...stand on any mere human authority, however high, the framer of the American constitution proceeded : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." How justly Knox conceived the true character of the chief personage of the Revolution, even at its... | |
 | William Graham Sumner - 1890 - 281 páginas
...sophisms, and false reasonings," he writes, " is a total ignorance of the natural rights of mankind. . . . The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...with a sunbeam, in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." It would... | |
 | James Mitchell Ashley - 1894 - 851 páginas
...head of that man from the North who rises here to defend slavery on principle." — JOHN RANDOLPH. "The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of Divinity itself, and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." — ALEXANDER... | |
 | George William Curtis - 1894
...upon faith in human nature. " The sacred rights of mankind," fervently exclaimed Alexander Hamilton, " are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or...with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of Divinity itself." That was the sublime faith in which this century began. The world... | |
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