 | French revolution, 1789 - 1799 - 202 pages
...are but elaborate folly, and that true liberty is incompatible with the bondage of sinful passions. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." This is no mere declamation, but the dictate of sober wisdom. No chains are so enslaving as those which... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufFrers little praise *. * See Hume. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain i That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...indeed 73O The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suflerers little praise*. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, 735 Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufPrers little praise.* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...indeed 'The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise*. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain -That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise,* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,. And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise;* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free^ And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 278 pages
...indeed, The tyranny, that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise. He is the freeman, whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside. There 's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | William Cowper - Poets, English - 1821 - 556 pages
...indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
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He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. 
