 | Joshua Coffin - Enslaved persons - 1860 - 48 pages
...feelings accord with the sentiment of the poet, " If I 'm designed yon Iordling"s slave, By Nature's laws designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind '! " " If the Bible," says the Rev. Albert Barnes, " could be shown to defend and countenance slavery as a good... | |
 | William A. Thomson - Credit - 1863 - 56 pages
..."credit" must have been the "lordling" to which he alluded. "If I'm designed yon lordling's slaye — By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish...scorn ? Or why has man the will and POWER To make his fellows mourn." For every purpose of man's life there is a natural law. Man's conditions were made... | |
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1863 - 726 pages
...spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. ' If I'm designed yon lordliness slave. By nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind f If not, why am I subject to His cruelty and acorn f Or why has man the will and power To make his... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 pages
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? Yet let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast : This... | |
 | Isaac Kelso - Missouri - 1864 - 346 pages
...mingle with the mob; pat the dogs on the back, and be the fiercest hound in the pack ! " CHAPTER VII. " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's...Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? " recur again to the persecutions of the youthful patriot, Adrian Malvin, and his venerable pastor,... | |
 | 1864 - 670 pages
...thoughtful man, and which Burns puts with great ability, not untouched with a modicum of indignation. "If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law designed ; Why was an indepecdent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to Bis cruelty and scorn ? Or why... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1864 - 380 pages
...fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law designed — Why was an independent wist E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the... | |
 | Robert Burns, Alexander Smith - 1865 - 470 pages
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...His cruelty, or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not this too much, my son, Disturb thy youthful breast ;... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1866 - 356 pages
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind...If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn ? 7" Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not this too much, my son,... | |
 | Pen and pencil pictures - American poetry - 1866 - 176 pages
...Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. " If I 'm designed yon lordling's slaveBy nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind f If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why lias man the will and power To make his... | |
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Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty, or scorn? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn? 
