 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...mine honour, I lose myself. Ant. amito Clcop., iii. 4. If I love thee, what is that to thee? Goethe. , / E er planted in my mind ? Burns. If I must die, / 1 will encounter darkness as a bride / And hug... | |
 | Labor unions - 1903 - 662 pages
...' of the epic masters, to be echoed and re-echoed, as in the oft-quoted lines of the minor bard : " If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By nature's...was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind?" The same idea has inspired all progress in government proper. From unexpected quarters, and as in response... | |
 | Robert Burns - English Literature - 1898 - 394 pages
...fields " where hundreds labor to support a haughty lordling's pride," he asks, in angry mood : If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law...Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? But he sees no remedy except in death.2 He is no apostle of the rebellion which expresses itself... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1898 - 394 pages
...fields " where hundreds labor to support a haughty lordling's pride," he asks, in angry mood : If I 'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law...Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? But he sees no remedy except in death. 2 He is no apostle of the rebellion which expresses itself... | |
 | Social sciences - 1903 - 648 pages
...fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless children mourn. If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's...was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind?" This condition of things was formerly almost unknown in America. In the North the scarcity of labor,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1911 - 824 pages
...philosophy that denied him the use of letters. I believe with Robert Burns, who says, "If • I am designed yon lordling's slave, by nature's law designed,...was an independent wish e'er planted in my mind?" The slave regime seems to have been touched with a feeling of primeval jealousy for fear of this new... | |
 | Burns Club of St. Louis - Poets, Scottish - 1918 - 100 pages
...surface of all poetry which no Theology can answer. "Man was made to Mourn," is the dirge of creation. "If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's...was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind?" That is the theory, but a contradictory reality confronts it. "If not, why am I subject to His cruelty... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1920 - 390 pages
...wished to secure it by constitutional means. In "Man Was Made to Mourn," he asks : "If I'm designed you lordling's slave, — By Nature's law designed, —...was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind?" Bruce's address to his soldiers at Bannockburn will live on through coming ages, as the bugle call... | |
 | Detroit Burns Club - Burns Statue (Detroit, Mich.). - 1921 - 108 pages
...question the divine rights of the tyrant; he was among the first to exalt the rights of the common man: "If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's...was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind?" So sang Burns nearly a century and a half ago, and today every school boy can name a half dozen of... | |
 | John R. Raynes - Railroads - 1921 - 372 pages
...omitted." This referred to the Burns' quotation so familiar to all our members : — " If I'm yon haughty lordling's slave By Nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? THE FIRST RULE BOOK 33 If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will... | |
| |
If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind... 
