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. He looks abroad into the varied field Of nature, and though poor perhaps, compared... Poems, - Page 117by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Martin Kellogg Schermerhorn - Apologetics - 1898 - 392 pages
...Liberty wherewith the Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage." " He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free. And all are slaves beside." " The voice mysterious, which whoso hears Must think on what has been and what will be. '... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - Conduct of life - 1898 - 420 pages
...está muerta. No podremos cavar una sepultura y decirle que permanezca allí. Podremos pisotearla, He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slavesbeside. pero seguirá viviendo. Cada pecado ó crimen tiene su ángel vengador en el momento... | |
 | Joseph James Neave - Christian literature - 1899 - 316 pages
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doomed them to the lire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise. He is...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... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1900
...In the New Testament we find, " Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And Cowper : " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Where there is no such acknowledgment of Divine law, men act in obedience to sense, to passion,... | |
 | Goodloe Harper Bell - American literature - 1900 - 599 pages
...derived from Heaven, Bought with His blood who gave it to mankind, And sealed with the same token, 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... | |
 | Edward Stephens - 1900 - 255 pages
...and therefore we have no imaginable reason for envying you the " freedom " of your momentary boast. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, and all are slaves besides;" and that freedom you have not got, and if you continue the bondslave of sin and Satan that... | |
 | William Cowper - 1900
...sanctifies his song ; And history, so warm on meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed 730 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... | |
 | Charles Bullock - 1900 - 224 pages
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 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 533 pages
...ragged wit a mute become, "When wealth and power would have her dumb. — Churchill: 'Ghost,* Book fff. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. — Cowper: 'Task,* Book V. All truth is precious, if not all divine, And what dilates the... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 557 pages
...ragged wit a mute become, When wealth and power would have her dumb. — Churchill: 'Ghost,' Book lII. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. And all are slaves beside. — Cowper: 'Task,* Book V. AH truth is precious, if not all divine, And what dilates the pow'rs... | |
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