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" He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts it off With as much ease as Samson his green withes. "
First Lessons in English - Page 55
by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - 205 pages
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufPrers little praise.* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he...
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Poems, Volume 1

William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious lufferers little praife *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are flaves befide. There's not a chain That hellifh foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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Poems,

William Cowper - 1803 - 388 pages
...indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious fufferers little praife *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are flaves befide. There's not a chain • See Hume. That hellifh foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind...
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Elegant Extracts: Or, Useful and Entertaining Pieces of Poetry

Elegant extracts - 1805 - 1054 pages
...Man inborn Grace ir.akes free— Hit relijb of ite Works cf God— AdJrefi to tbt Creator. COWPER. . He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are Haves befide. There's not a chain '] hat helliih foes confed'rate for his harm Can wind around him,...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1805 - 376 pages
...indeed The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious fufferers little praife *. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are fl.ives befide. There's not a chain, That hellifh foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him,...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...indeed 'The tyranny, that doomed them to the fire, But gives the glorious sufferers little praise*. He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain -That hellish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but...
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff 'rers little praise,* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,. And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he...
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The Task: A Poem in Six Books

William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd them to the fire, But gives the glorious suff'rers little praise;* He is the freeman whom the truth makes free^ And all are slaves beside. There's not a chain That hellish foes, confed'rate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he...
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The Intellectual repository for the New Church. (July/Sept. 1817 ..., Volume 24

New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...interfering with the " liberty of the subject." We need to remember the sentiment of the poet — " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides." The only freedom worth contending for is the freedom that harmonizes with the dictates of truth and...
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The Eclectic Review, Volume 11; Volume 29

Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1819 - 648 pages
...blessing to be co-extensive with human existence. In a lower sense we may adont Cowper's words : ' He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, ' And all are slaves beside.' America is not the land of liberty Even Mr. Birkheck started back at the prevalence of the...
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