 Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey.  The Balance, and Columbian Repository - Page 2121804Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 280 pages
...man's ohdur uf heart, It does not feel for man. The n it'ial bond Of brotherhood is sever'd, as thj flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not color'd like his own ; and having pow'r T* enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms... | |
 | William Cowper - 1822 - 258 pages
...outrage, with which Earth is lill'd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the...at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having power To' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms... | |
 | Ezekiel Sanford, Robert Walsh - English poetry - 1822 - 562 pages
...Earth is fill'd, There is no flesh in man's obdurate haart, It does not feel for man ; the nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax, That falls...at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r To' enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Literature - 1822 - 322 pages
...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 That falls asunder at the touch of fire. 2. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own; and having pow'r T' enforce the... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1822 - 312 pages
...which earth isfilPd. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart; II does not feel for man. The nat'ral bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the tooch of fire : He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Nut colour'd like his own: and having pow'r T'... | |
 | Richard SAMBLE, Mary Ann Hedge - 1823 - 206 pages
...the wretched beings they intend to make the instruments of their inhuman thirst of gain. (Note A..) " The natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire— And having pow'r T" enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause, Dooms and devotes him as his lawful... | |
 | John Pierpont - Recitations - 1823 - 492 pages
...flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does hot feel for man ; the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not coloured like his own ; and haying power To enforce the wrong, for suah a worthy cause Dooms... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...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 is sever'd as the...at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms... | |
 | 1824 - 448 pages
...outrage, with which earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart, It does not feel for man; the natural bond Of brotherhood is sever'd, as the...at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not coloured like his own; and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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, That falls...at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colour'd like his own ; and having pow'r T* enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms... | |
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