 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
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 679 pages
...only to destroy. Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume; 22B atory speeches of men like Patrick Henry in America. forms, he would deliver his sentimen : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery... | |
 | John Morley - 1920 - 985 pages
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 | Emile Legouis - 1921 - 480 pages
...waters mournful measures swell, Unlocking bleeding Thought's " memorial celI." Also The Taek, v. 446-8, Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting...its lustre and perfume. And we are weeds without it ; and DS, 714-5, While Freedom's farthest hamlets blessing share Found still beneath her smile, and... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922
...France. An Ode. V. 7 Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty. II Corinthians. III. 17. 8 "Pis to the Constitutional Convention. (1787) 12 Were there no COWPEE— The Task. Bk. VL 446. 9 Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven... | |
 | John Augustus William Haas - 1922 - 275 pages
...and I make beauty as little as we make truth. Beauty is and as we grasp it we are free. It is such "Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life...lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it." —Cowfer. The will is the very center of liberty. By it we accept, through it we reject, motives.... | |
 | 1922
...which has been the beacon light of a tempest tossed world to point to the haven of rest and plenty. " Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume." Freedom, sustained by Christian faith and influences, is the basis of the highest exploits of mind,... | |
 | 1922
...which has been the beacon light of a tempest tossed world to point to the haven of rest and plenty. " Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume." Freedom, sustained by Christian faith and influences, is the basis of the highest exploits of mind,... | |
 | 1924
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