 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
 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Catholic emancipation - 1826 - 508 pages
...nobleness and spirit : " He is a freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside ! There is 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 wyths. * • « * He is indeed a freeman.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...execrates indeed 730 The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers httle 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, 735 Can wind around him, but... | |
 | Timothy Flint - Mississippi River Valley - 1830 - 696 pages
...must not only be resisted, but it must cease to have influence, before men can be said to be ire". " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." ' The time must arrive when no man will presume to dictate to another, and when God alone... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...alone,. And he by means in philosophic eyes Trivial and worthy of disdain, achieves The wonder. p. 186. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. ***** Acquaint thyself with God if thou wouldst taste His works. Admitted once to his embrace,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...this. She 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 besides. There's not a chain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
 | William Lothian - Bible - 1828 - 580 pages
...truth shall make you free." (John viii. 31, 32.) Or, as a christian poet beautifully expresses it,— " 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... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...spent, Taught in my Saviour's school of grace, Have learn'd to be content. CHRISTIAN LIBERTY. UOWPEE. HE is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside; there's notachain, That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...meaner themes, Is cold on this. She execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, 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... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...this. She execrates, indeed, The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suffrers 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 hie harm, Can wind around him, but... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - Great Britain - 1830 - 276 pages
...control, and soon Gave, when they saw his useful plans excel, Reluctant patronage to Dr. BELL. * " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." COWPER. Forth comes the victim, sacrificed to laws Of selfish policy, for such the cause Of... | |
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