Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The... Sidney Roemlee: A Tale of New England - Page 254by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - 1827Full view - About this book
| Lucius Hudson Holt - 1915 - 956 pages
...prerogative can please) As dreadful as the Manichean God, Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. ny Ь ys on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress iu the road of science;... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 858 pages
...prerogative can please) 140 As dreadful as the Manichean god,8 Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. ne, 10 Thy weaker novice to pcrforme thy will; Lay...out of thine everlasting seryne4 The antique rolle 145 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN, ANN BODHAM (C. 1790)... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...can please) 140 As dreadful as the Manichean, god,' Adored through fear, strong only to destroy. "Fis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life...its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 145 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK THE GIFT OF MY COUSIN, ANN BODHAM (C. 1790)... | |
| Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1915 - 852 pages
...prerogative can please) 140 As dreadful as the Manichean god,' Adored through fear, strong; only to destroy. and company Arid we are weeds without it. 145 ON THE RECEIPT OF MY MOTHER'S PICTURE OUT OF NORFOLK THE GIFT OF... | |
| 1916 - 292 pages
...used to quote Cowper's lines when I thought something was being done to interfere with my liberty: 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of Discovery;... | |
| 1916 - 550 pages
...least, a radical, cursing tyranny in its various forms, or weeping over the woes of the poor : ' ' 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. "si "Fled are those times when, in harmonious strains. The rustic poet praised his native plains. No... | |
| Albert Venn Dicey - 1917 - 152 pages
...people of France were entering on the path of human progress. These men of hope all felt with Cowper: 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it.^ In welcoming the earlier stages of the French revolt against despotism all the Whigs, with the one... | |
| John Davison Lawson - 1918 - 956 pages
...believed correctly, that, without liberty, life itself is not worth the having. In the words of Cowper: " 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." Gentlemen of the jury, white and colored, what I have thus said, I have spoken from my heart, and have... | |
| John Davison Lawson - 1918 - 956 pages
...correctly, that, without liberty, life itself is not worth the having. In the words of Cowper: " "Pis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life...lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." Gentlemen of the jury, white and colored, what I have thus said, I have spoken from my heart, and have... | |
| Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...fear, strong only to destroy. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster ompany : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery... | |
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