 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
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1904 - 781 pages
...ALLY. CONFEDERATE (Lat. conf'xdcrdre, to win by a league) is used of individuals in a bad sense. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him, bnt he... | |
 | British Homoeopathic Congress - Homeopathy - 1905 - 86 pages
...of thought and action in other phases of human experience is already far advanced and boasted of. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
 | William Cowper - 1905 - 672 pages
...indeed 730 The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise1. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There 's not a chain » See Hume [0.1 That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind... | |
 | Medicine - 1905
...thought and action in other phases of human experience is already far advanced and boasted of. "JHe is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
 | Liberal Publication Department - Great Britain - 1906
...your graves, and fill your tomb ; And weave your winding-sheet, till fair England be your sepulchre. He is the Freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — COWPER. SONG OF THE FACTORY SLAVE. BY ERNEST JONES. THE land it is the landlords' ; The... | |
 | Quotations - 1906 - 763 pages
...throbbing heart of Freedom finds An answer in his own, WHITTIER, The Hero, st, 24, 25 Freeman, — He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside, — COWPER, The Task : The Winter Morning Walk, lines 733, 734 When your youngest, the mealy-mouthed... | |
 | Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908
...hovel, surrounded by wealth or crushed by poverty, adorned by crown and scepter or bound by chains, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." GEORGE HIRAM GEYER. THE OPTIMISM OF HISTORY. By GEORGE HIRAM GEYER, of the Ohio Wesleyan University.... | |
 | Charles Edgar Prather - Orators - 1908
...hovel, surrounded by wealth or crushed by poverty, adorned by crown and scepter or bound by chains, " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." GEORGE HIRAM GEYER. THE OPTIMISM OF HISTORY. By GEORGE HIRAM GEYER, of the Ohio Wesleyan University.... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1908 - 644 pages
...in the old story, who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim. — ilaranlay. 0 beeide.— Coippcr. Where the Bible forme publie opinion, a nation muet be free. — <}. Spring. Freedom... | |
 | Rev. S. Pollock Linn - Quotations - 1881 - 446 pages
...Joteph Cook. IJF the world goes against the truth, then Athanasius goes against the world. Athanasius. HE is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. Cowper. TBUTH hath a quiet breast. Shakespeare. TBUTH is by its very nature intolerant, exclusive... | |
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