| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - Slave trade - 1840 - 322 pages
...bondsmen ; " ye be idle, ye be idle," says the master to the slave in all nations and in all ages. " 'T is liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. I now proceed to the enumeration of the symptoms which... | |
| Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton - History - 1840 - 624 pages
...bondsmen ; " ye be idle, ye be idle," says the master to the slave in all nations and in all ages. " 'T is liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. I now proceed to the enumeration of the symptoms which... | |
| Charles White - Christianity - 1853 - 488 pages
...been described ; less liberty no man ought ever to accept. " Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume, And we are weeds without it." It is right that every citizen should desire to possess himself, govern himself, employ himself, exalt... | |
| Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...The seorn of danger, and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. Сowpеr's Task. 'T is liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. Cowper's Task. The widow'd Indian, when her lord expires,... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Mental illness - 1856 - 438 pages
...and united hearts, The surest presage of the good they seek. Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster 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... | |
| George Barrell Cheever - Slavery - 1857 - 300 pages
...on millions of beating hearts assert, that for themselves, 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume, And we are weeds without it ; and if they can turn from such sentiments, and with eyes moistened with the tears springing from... | |
| 1866 - 1106 pages
...the existence of "f creeds decapitating nonconformity I " ' Tis liberty alone, that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster 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... | |
| Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on liiik LIBERTY. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume; And we are weeds without it All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men. Is evil; hurls the faculties, impedes Their progress... | |
| John Duncan Quackenbos - English language - 1896 - 492 pages
...from her alabaster brow. — Truth is stranger than fiction. 'Tis Liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume; And we are weeds without it. COWPER'S Task. See how the river with its lucid streams Like a pearl necklace round the mountain gleams.... | |
| Goodloe Harper Bell - English language - 1897 - 390 pages
...there lay his magnificent frame, stretched out like one of 3. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its luster and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 4. Strike home, strong-hearted man ! Down to the root Of old oppression sink the Saxon steel. 5. God... | |
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