 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 55by Alfred Hix Welsh - 1888 - 205 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Howitt - Literary landmarks - 1847 - 524 pages
...He shows the secret of his deep and untiring attachment to nature, in the love of Him who made it. " 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... | |
 | Charles Walton Sanders, Joshua Chase Sanders - Readers - 1848 - 468 pages
...understanding to the simple." LESSON XLVII. HAPPY FREEDOM OF THE MAN WHOM GRACE ' MAKES FREE. COWPEE. 1. HE is the freeman, whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain, That fiendish foes, confederate for his harm, Can wind around him, but he casts... | |
 | Theology - 1848 - 876 pages
...poor" rest on their and our efforts to interest the poor in the riches of his gospel. TRUE FREEDOM. 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...execrates indeed The tyranny that doom'd 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 he... | |
 | American poetry - 1888 - 328 pages
...wide and high. Where loves, like stars, forever shine, And sympathies are deep, divine. JAMES BUCKHAM. 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... | |
 | Jews - 1889 - 368 pages
...Rothschild, of New York, M.; H. Hildburghauser, of New York, G. ; L- H. Wisebart, of Cincinnati, A. 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1889 - 632 pages
...indeed 730 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 he... | |
 | Charles John Smith - English language - 1890 - 802 pages
...ALLY. CONFEDERATE (Lat. conjctdcrare, to join by a league) is used of individuals in a bad sense. " He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. There's not a chain That hellish foes confederate for his harm Can wind around him, but he casts it... | |
 | Anna Swanwick - Poetry - 1892 - 412 pages
...English Poets." Eev. A. Stopford Brooke. tion and assimilation by the human soul of heavenly truth : " He is the freeman whom the Truth makes free, And all are slaves beside." Cowper's originality appears, not only as the champion of liberty, and as the poet of humanity... | |
 | G. Steel - English language - 1894 - 320 pages
...anything. Shakespeare. (6) The prudent man really frames his own fortunes for himself. Plautns. 24. (1) He is the free-man whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves besides. — Cowper. (2) I would rather be a free-man among slaves, than a slave among free men. — Swift.... | |
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