Christianity shall yet emerge from the tents of Mesech and the tabernacles of Kedar, leaving behind her the scenes of her bondage, and put on her coronation robes, and move by universal love to universal empire, the emancipatrix of the oppressed — the ambassadress of heaven — the benefactress of the earth.
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1869, Standish Grove Grady and William Hay Macnaghten, A Manual of the Mahommedan Law of Inheritance and Contract, Comprising the Doctrines of the Soonee and Sheea Schools, and Based Upon the Text of Sir W. H. Macnaghten’s Principles and Precedents, Together with the Decisions of the Privy Council and High Courts of the Presidencies in India, page 46 (W. H. Allen); and quoted in:
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Residuaries by Special Cause.—A residuary by special cause is the emancipator, or emancipatrix of a freed man dying without residuary male heirs; the legal sharers, as well as females, being in this case specially excluded from inheritance, Elb. 52. This provision is, however, inoperative inasmuch as slavery has been abolished by the Legislature.
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^({1}) […] since Mrs. Joanna — as she chooses to style herself, though a married woman — has become the would-be emancipatrix of her sex?
^({2}) […] view to support her, besides that of proving an emancipatrix and benefactress to her sex — that there had sprung up a kind of jealousy […]
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