 And taught a brute the way to safe revenge. i would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and fine sense, * Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.  Poems - Page 178by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...ANIMALS. 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 tray crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...needlessly sets wot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail. That craVr'fs at evening m the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let toe reptile live. a The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charg'd perhaps with venom, that... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...thus : I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine seioe-, Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. Aii inodvertent step may crush the «r ai! c 2 That crawU at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...revenge, 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...snail. That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But her that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. The creeping vermin,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1828 - 252 pages
...when she form'd, design 'd them an abode Yet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets toot upon a worm . An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening m the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...1. 1 WODLD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with ponsh'd manners and fine sense, Vet wanting sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets...inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; *»• 71 ut he that h:w humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, arid let... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...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 has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. 2. The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight, And charg'd perhaps with venom, that intrudes A visitor... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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...inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path; But he that has humanity, forewarn' d, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...revenge. 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...inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn 'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile... | |
 | William Rhind - National history - 1830 - 376 pages
...observes, " 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." Certainly all uncalled-for infliction of torture on animals is highly reprehensible, at the same time... | |
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