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" 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 Legion of Liberty: And Force of Truth, Containing the Thoughts, Words ... - Page 207
by Julius Rubens Ames - 1857 - 336 pages
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English Literature

Roy Bennett Pace - English literature - 1918 - 986 pages
...his brother, and destroys ; And worse than all, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. WILLIAM COWPER And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground,...
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English Literature

Herbert Bates - English literature - 1918 - 640 pages
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother and destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored . . . Chains him and tasks him, and exacts his sweat •...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. It is significant that Cowper loved the Iliad enough to translate it with Greek simplicity. One should...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored 21 As human nature's broadest, they have been to every human being who, from whatever...the characters and incidents were to be such as will f I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3° And tremble...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...to be deplored a As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts kis hout bottom as without shore. "Laplace's Book on the...course, which, by greatest good fortune, he and the li ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when...
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The Library of Poetry and Song, Volume 2

William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 424 pages
...his brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And huving human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, 22 1 bagpipe * Cf. Jeremiah, ix : 2 ees flee hame wi' lades o' treasure, 55 The minutes...Kings may be blest, but Tarn was glorious, O'er a' th 25 S Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush | And hang...
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The Eighteenth Century

Clara Linklater Thomson - English poetry - 1914 - 82 pages
...his brother, and destroys; And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts...bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. . . . Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free,...
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Annales de Bretagne, Volume 13

Brittany (France) - 1898 - 798 pages
...and destroys; And worse them ail, and most to be deplored, As human nature's broadest, foulest blol, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With...human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, lo think himself a man? LXVII Dissertation allemande. \. Lessing aïs Vorkàmpfer 3. Die rotnanlische...
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Historical

William James McKnight - Jefferson County (Pa.) - 1917 - 630 pages
...and thirty-seven human beings were considered "property" within her borders and held as slaves.Chains him and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes,...that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps when she sees it inflicted on a beast. In 1840 slavery still existed in Pennsylvania, the total number being seventy-five,...
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Between Mothers and Daughters: Stories Across a Generation

Susan Koppelman - Mothers and daughters - 1987 - 348 pages
...name not love — while men can doom The fruit of love, to Slavery from the womb." — MONTGOMERY. "And what man seeing this, And having human feelings,...blush, And hang his head to think himself a man?" — COWPER. On the finely macadamized road which leads from La Prairie to Montreal, a number of low...
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