 | Railroads - 1922 - 710 pages
...submission to his fellow man. Or, as aptly expressed in the words of the poet "If I'm designed you lordling's slave, "By Nature's law designed, "Why was an independent wish "E'er planted in my mind. This country with its institutions, belongs to the people, in whom resides the sovereign power —... | |
 | Martin Robison Delany - History - 1993 - 228 pages
...one may, eventually, lead to the other. Of these we feel the direful effects. " If I'm designed your lordling's slave, By nature's law designed ; Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind V CHAPTER I. CONDITION OF MANY CLASSES IN EUROPE CONSIDERED. THAT there have been in all ages and in... | |
 | David Frank - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 636 pages
...there is instead a green, flowery world. - Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present (1843) CHAPTER 1 S Gotland If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's law designed, Why was an independent wish 'er planted in my mind? - Robert Burns, Rules of the Lanarkshire Miners'Association (1879) Ecclefechan... | |
 | English literature - 1926 - 700 pages
...wretched doom that is couplit to foul thraldome." But four centuries wrought changes in the tune : If I'm designed yon lordling's slave, By Nature's...Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? Seen in the light of social history this is right enough. But — and it is best expressed colloquially... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrup - English poetry - 1888 - 790 pages
...fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, 'though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. "If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish E er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty an scorn ? Or why has man the will... | |
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If I'm designed yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law designed — Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind... 
