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" For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battles wert so marred. "
The Gentleman's Magazine - Page 162
1871
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Sartor Resartus: In Three Books

Thomas Carlyle - Clothing and dress - 1837 - 322 pages
...Hardly-entreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conscript, on whom the...stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of labor ; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ; thou art in thy...
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Discourses on Human Life, Volume 2

Orville Dewey - Sermons, American - 1838 - 310 pages
...Hardly-entreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conscript, on whom the...encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacement of labor ; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ;...
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Moral views of commerce, society, and politics, in 12 discourses

Orville Dewey - 1838 - 312 pages
...Hardly-entreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conscript, on whom the...encrusted must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacement of labour ; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ;...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 8

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1850 - 678 pages
...Hardlyentreated brother !" he exclaims, " For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs so deformed: thou wert our conscript, on whom the...lot fell, and fighting our battles, wert so marred." Now what astonishes us, amid these lamentations over the lot of the poor, is the entire absence of...
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The New Englander, Volume 8

Criticism - 1850 - 676 pages
..."Hardlyentreated brother !" he exclaims, " For us was (hy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs so deformed : thou wert our conscript, on whom the...lot fell, and fighting our battles, wert so marred." Now what astonishes us, amid these lamentations over the lot of the poor, is the entire absence of...
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The Works of Orville Dewey, D.D. ...

Orville Dewey - Theology - 1844 - 904 pages
...Hardly -entreated brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed. Thou wert our conscript, on whom the...encrusted must it stand with the thic.k adhesions and defacement of labour ; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ;...
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Ephemerides: Or, Occasional Recreations at the Sea Port Town of Tant-perd ...

Robert M. Hovenden - 1844 - 386 pages
...! Hardly entreated Brother! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed ; thou wert our conscript, on whom the lot fell, and fighting our battle wert so marred. For in thee too lay a God-created form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrusted...
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On Heroes, Hero-worship, & the Heroic in History: Six Lectures ; Reported ...

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 490 pages
...Hardly-entreated Brother ! ' For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and ' fingers so deformed : thou wert our Conscript, on whom the...a god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded ; encrust' ed must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of ' Labour ; and thy body, like...
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Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh

Thomas Carlyle - English essays - 1846 - 260 pages
...Hardly-entreated Brother ! ' For us was thy back so bent. for us were thy straight limbs and ' fingers so deformed : thou wert our Conscript, on whom the...a god-created Form, but it was not to be unfolded; encrust' ed must it stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of ' Labour ; and thy body, like...
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Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and ..., Volumes 30-31

1847 - 876 pages
...tliee. Hardlyentreated brother ! For us was thy back so bent, for us were thy straight limbs and fingers so deformed ; thou wert our conscript, on whom the...stand with the thick adhesions and defacements of labor; and thy body, like thy soul, was not to know freedom. Yet toil on, toil on ; tluni art in thy...
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