 | Sydney George Fisher - United States - 1908 - 636 pages
...documents, he declared, must yield to natural laws and our rights as men. "The sacred rights of man are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself and can never be erased by mortal power." The Declaration of Independence was an epitome... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - United States - 1908 - 636 pages
...natural laws and our rights as men. " The sacred rights of man are not to be rummaged for among oM parchments or musty records. They are written as with...in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself and can never be erased by mortal power." The Declaration of Independence was an epitome... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - United States - 1908 - 632 pages
...documents, he declared, must yield to natural laws and our rights as men. " The sacred rights of man are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records. They are written an with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divinity itself and can never... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 318 pages
...sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records," but were " written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature," now himself produced a parchment which, if not old or musty, was as well devised for the purpose of... | |
 | Arthur Johnston - American loyalists - 1908 - 316 pages
...sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty records," but were " written as with a sunbeam in the whole volume of human nature," now himself produced a parchment which, if not old or musty, was as well devised for the purpose of... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - History - 1907 - 690 pages
...his system expresses well enough the spirit of the Revolution : " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. I consider civil liberty, in a genuine, unadulterated sense, as the greatest of terrestrial blessings.... | |
 | Sir Charles Bruce - Great Britain - 1910 - 558 pages
...be established on the basis of the Declaration of Independence: " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power. I consider civil liberty, in a genuine, unadulterated sense, as the greatest of terrestrial blessings.... | |
 | John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Baron Acton - France - 1910 - 404 pages
...from no part of them without the blackest and most aggravated guilt. The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." But when we speak in the gross of the American Revolution we combine different and discordant things.... | |
 | Henry Van Dyke - National characteristics, American - 1910 - 304 pages
...the voice of the famous Genevese in the words of Alexander Hamilton: "The sacred rights of men are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...in the whole volume of human nature by the hand of divin; ity itself, and can never be erased by mortal power." But it still remains true that the mainspring... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - Literary Criticism - 1911 - 446 pages
...she could not complain that her rights had been taken away : — " The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for among old parchments or musty...can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." ALEXANDER HAMILTON A profound student of American constitutional history says of Hamilton's pamphlets:... | |
| |
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... 
