 | Thomas Pitt Taswell-Langmead - 1905 - 678 sidor
...Shakespeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." (Hist. Eng. i. 221.) [One of the latest contributions to Magna Charta literature is a treatise by Sir... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1905 - 492 sidor
...truth which they have inspired, are of inferior value when compared with the subjection of men and of their rulers to the principles of justice, if indeed...that spirit which the Great Charter breathed over our forefathers."1 II. The Petition of Right. It is easy to declare human rights, but it is difficult... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1905 - 488 sidor
...truth which they have inspired, are of inferior value when compared with the subjection of men and of their rulers to the principles of justice, if indeed...that spirit which the Great Charter breathed over our forefathers. ' ' 1 II. The Petition of Right. It is easy to declare human rights, but it is difficult... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1911 - 420 sidor
...truth which they have inspired, are of inferior value when compared with the subjection of men and of their rulers to the principles of justice, if indeed...that spirit which the Great Charter breathed over our forefathers. ' ' 1 II. The Petition of Right. It is easy to declare human rights, but it is difficult... | |
 | Heber Leonidas Hart - 1918 - 250 sidor
...Shakespeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." l It would, however, be quite possible to read through Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the... | |
 | Heber Leonidas Hart - 1918 - 284 sidor
...these mighty spirits could not have been formed except under equal laws, nor roused to full activity '3 without the influence of that spirit which the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." l It would, however, be quite possible to read through Magna Charta, the Petition of Right, and the... | |
 | Walter McElreath - 1923 - 20 sidor
...Shakespeares, her Mutons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." By so much, therefore, as the American Constitution is greater than Magna Carta ; by so much as the... | |
 | North Carolina Bar Association - 1908 - 218 sidor
...men and their rulers to the principles of justice, if, indeed, it be not more true that these weighty spirits could not have been formed except under equal...influence of that spirit which the Great Charter breathed in their forefathers." It is a glorious record made by the English people to whom their charter was... | |
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To have produced it, to have preserved it, to have matured it, constitute the immortal claim of England on the esteem of mankind. Her Bacons and Shakspeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue... 
