As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,... The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of ... - Página 109por Thomas Clarkson - 1808Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| William Hone - 1827 - 412 páginas
...lay in the House, That Jack built. • Portentous, unexampled, unexplain'd! What man seeing this, Aud having human feelings, does not blush. And hang his head, to think himself a man? 1 cannot rest A silent witness of the headlong rage, Or heedless folly, hy which thousands die Bleed... | |
| John West - 1827 - 142 páginas
...without a child, six months old." " What is man ? and what man seeing this, And having human feeling, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" It is in those changes, however, which are now spreading over the globe, that we look for an alteration... | |
| 1828 - 814 páginas
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroy* ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? \ would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 452 páginas
...had else As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat 20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? 25 I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble... | |
| Henry Dana Ward - 1828 - 428 páginas
...Orations, p. 80.) t heart to laugh. Well said the psalmist in his haste. k ' All men are liars." Yea, and " What man, seeing this, " And having human feelings,...blush " And hang his head, to think himself a man." Yet to weep over human folly is of little use : our sympathy is misplaced, and the evil rarely corrected.... | |
| Robert Montgomery - 1828 - 144 páginas
...to be thrown, like bags of clay, into the Thames, in order to fill up the aperture in the tunnel. " And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" This is only one of the thousand evils whose origin may be fairly traced to literary Puffing. With... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 414 páginas
...destroys ; As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat '20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps...when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man 1 And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think... | |
| Enoch Lewis - 1828 - 390 páginas
...well awaken in the benevolent mind, a train of sensations which language is too barren to express. What man seeing this, And having human feelings, does...not blush And hang his head to think himself a man: In some instances, it is true, the number of lashes to be inflicted at one tude. The English villein,... | |
| 1828 - 648 páginas
...lashes in the morning, and was condemned to lie there till evening, when he was to have fifty more ! ' Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blnsh And hang his bead, to think himself a man ?' While here, Mr. Jeffereys visited a Catholic priest:... | |
| Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 páginas
...Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else 15 Like kindred drops been mingled into one. As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat 20 With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then... | |
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