| William Cowper - 1842 - 162 páginas
...prerogative can please) AB dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds Tho eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those... | |
| William Cowper - 1842 - 166 páginas
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean god, Ador'd through fear, strong only to destroy. 445 'Tis liberty alone, that gives the flow'r Of fleeting...on evil men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, . In those... | |
| Reasons - 1843 - 68 páginas
...supplies us with an excellent answer:— " 'Tis liberty which gives the flower A fitting life—its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it....Except what wisdom lays on evil men, is evil— Hurts their faculties—impedes their progress In the road to science,—and begets, In those who suffer... | |
| John Hall Hindmarsh - 1845 - 464 páginas
...to the throne, Not to the man who fills it as he ought /* "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are...All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, /* evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of... | |
| C. P. Bronson - 1845 - 390 páginas
...Regard the interests of otters, as wrell as» your own. Tis liberty, alone, that gives '.he flower Of fleeting life its lustre, and perfume ; And we are weeds without il. Man's soul— -in a perpetual motion flows, And to no ralKard cause— that moduli owes. . Light—... | |
| 1846 - 796 páginas
...been described ; less liberty no man ought ever to accept. " 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." It is right that every citizen should desire to possess himself, govern himself, employ himself, exalt... | |
| 1846 - 792 páginas
...been described ; less liberty no man ought ever to accept. " 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it." It is right that every citizen should desire to possess himself, govern himself, employ himself, exalt... | |
| Gardiner Spring - 1846 - 336 páginas
...part of the world ? Who but a Christian poet has ever sung, " 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without ill" Every where the men whose minds have been im* Travels in England, France, Spain and the Barbary... | |
| William Cowper - 1847 - 556 páginas
...Manichean god, Adored throug) tcdr, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are...All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, 1s evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of... | |
| Presbyterian Church of England - 1849
...overmastering enthusiasm, as if indeed they felt that— " "Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume — And we are weeds without it." Personal liberty is the birthright of every man. As a responsible and immortal being, no child of humanity... | |
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