 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - American literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...yoke or harness. No cruelty, neglect, or exposure can occasion to it one of those tortures, " which mercy, with a bleeding heart, weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast." I repeat it, this seems to me to be a momentous consideration. Who can estimate the suffering which... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; "20 And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...heart, Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush. And hang... | |
 | William Cogswell - Christian life - 1833 - 368 pages
...Speaking of the ATrican slaves, the philanthropic Cowper has justly characterized their cruel usage. " Thus man devotes his brother and destroys, And, worse...bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast." Mr. Titt, in" his speech i« the British Parliament, in favor of the abolition of the slave trade says,... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey ; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him,...heart, Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then whet i» man ? And what man seeing this. And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head,... | |
 | Thomas Timpson - Antislavery movements - 1834 - 168 pages
...Mountains interpoe'd, Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: And worse than all, and most to be deplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains Aim, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat... | |
 | La Roy Sunderland - Antislavery movements - 1836 - 194 pages
...licentiousness. It is tainted with a deadlier pestilence than the plague. — \Channing.] Thus man devotes bis brother, and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most...bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. COWPEH. Was man ordained the slave of man to toil, Yoked with the brutes, and fettered to the soil... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; 20 And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human...bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 2.5 Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 402 pages
...had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; 20 And worse than all, and most to be deplored As human...bleeding heart Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. 25 Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush And hang... | |
 | George Thompson, William Lloyd Garrison - Slavery - 1836 - 202 pages
...become had he not been doomed from the womb to till the ground as a slave, under the infliction of ' Stripes that Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast 1 ' Another evil of slavery is, that it depresses the body by excessive labor, while it takes from... | |
 | 1836 - 190 pages
...himself sold to the merciless Mahometans ; he saw them chaining him and lashing him With stripes, which Mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast ; he beheld the .cruel keeper urging him to greater labour than he was able to support, and enforcing... | |
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As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. 
