 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...indignantly asked, in the presence of oppression, "If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave, By Nature's laws designed ; Why was an independent wish E'er planted...my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and pow'r To make his fellow mourn ?" l Nations, like men, have... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave — By Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn'! Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn? Yet, let not this too much,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. If I'm design'd yon lordling's slaveBy Nature's law design'd, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn 1 Or why lias man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not this too much,... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - Readers - 1860 - 450 pages
...lo^e his consciousness forever1? If I'm design'd yon lordling's slave', By nature's law design'd', Why was an independent wish' E'er planted in my mind"- ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty \ or scorn*? Or, why hath man the will', and power" ! To make his fellows mourn*? Who can hold a fire... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 668 pages
...'•If I'm design'd yon lordling's sLavc, By Nature's laws designed ; Why was an independent wish K'er planted in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn? Or why has man the will nnd pow'r To make hU fellow mourn ?" ' Nations, like men, have thus... | |
 | Joshua Coffin - Enslaved persons - 1860 - 48 pages
...feelings accord with the sentiment of the poet, " If I 'm designed yon Iordling"s slave, By Nature's laws designed, Why was an independent wish E'er planted in my mind '! " " If the Bible," says the Rev. Albert Barnes, " could be shown to defend and countenance slavery as a good... | |
 | Old age in literature - 1861 - 144 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...my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? " Yet let not this too much,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 440 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...in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has Man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? Yet, let not this too much,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 368 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...in my mind? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or 'scorn? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? " Yet let not this too much,... | |
 | Robert Burns - 1863 - 358 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...my mind ? If not, why am I subject to His cruelty or scorn ? Or why has man the will and power To make his fellow mourn ? " Yet let not this too much,... | |
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See yonder poor o'erlabored wight, So abject, mean, and vile, Who begs a brother of the earth To give him leave to toil; And see his lordly fellow-worm The poor petition spurn, Unmindful, though a weeping wife And helpless offspring mourn. 
