 Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more ! My ear is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart,...  Poems - Page 37by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 95 pages
...pain'd, My. soul is eick, with ev'ry day's report 6 Of wrong and outrage, with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart ; It does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd,-as the flax, 10 That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He... | |
 | Conrad Malte-Brun - Atlases - 1832
...their own city to the risk of infection!"' How true are the words of the English poet: • " Tliere is no flesh in man's obdurate heart¡ It does not feel for man!" . Couper. The remains of Klopstock lie in a burial-ground at Otteneen, a village, which, from its proximity,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833
...is still used by a few of the native powers, the farthest removed from European influences. SLAVERY. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does...feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd, as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin... | |
 | Lydia Maria Child - African Americans - 1833 - 232 pages
...My soul ifl flick with every day's rc|iort Of wrong and outrage, with which this earth i - lilb'tl. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. COUTER. WHILE the Portuguese were exploring Africa, in 1442, Prince Henry ordered Anthony Gonsalez... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - English language - 1833 - 105 pages
...crushed thy temples gone. 13. Dear are the wild and snowy hills, Where hale and ruddy freedom smiles. 14. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man. 15. Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. 16. Let freedom circulate through every vein... | |
 | Alonzo King - Burma - 1834 - 320 pages
...executioner's office be performed, and the inhabitants of the earth learn righteousness ! ' My heart is pained, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.' The culprit will be swung off in a few moments. O, what a boon is time of probation ! a time to repent... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Antislavery movements - 1834 - 151 pages
...LABOURS TO EXTINGUISH Sl.AVERY. CHAPTER IK HISTORICAL NOTICES OF THE SLAVE TRADE. - My car is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth Is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart ; It does not feel for man ; tbe iiat'ral bond Of... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic education - 1834 - 420 pages
...common to corrupt human nature. You have already 'seen how the Apostles themselves stumbled ; but " there is no flesh in man's obdurate heart ; it does not feel for man ; " and is often cold and indignant even at the young of the species. "And when the chief priests and... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 144 pages
...the Son of man with a KISS. 482. The firmest works of MAN, too, are gradually giving way. 484. My ear is PAINED, my soul is SICK, with every day's report...man's obdurate heart, — it does not FEEL for man. 485. Slaves cannot BREATHE in England ; if their lungs receive our air, that moment they are FREE.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835
...oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more. My ear is pain'd, My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage with which earth is fill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood... | |
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