| William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of ir lends (Though grac'd with polish 'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail. That crawls at ev'ning in the publick path ; But he... | |
| Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...sing in the cause of humanity ! I would not enter on my list of friends, (tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, yet wanting sensibility) the man, who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertant step may crush the snail, that crawls at evening in the public path, but he that... | |
| Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...BLAIR. CRUELTY TO BRUTES CENSURED. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, ThaJ crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1821 - 246 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
| William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a brute the way to save revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends ("Though graced with polished manners uud fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent... | |
| Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...Cruelty to brutes censured.' 1. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a. worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
| Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...inferior animals censured. 1 I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that... | |
| British poets - 1824 - 676 pages
...just of man's degenerate race. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path, But he that... | |
| Edward Sutleffe - 1824 - 638 pages
...sentiment of hu manity, that — " I would not enter on my list of friends, Though graced with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility — the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm." — COWPER. CAUTION NECESSARY IN THE USB OF CALOMEL. Dr. informed me, a few years ago, that... | |
| James Wallace (ship's surgeon.) - 1824 - 192 pages
...is warm, Whose hands are pure. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
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