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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 : Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having human feelings,... "
Abolition of the African Slave-trade: By the British Parliament - Page 48
by Thomas Clarkson - 1830
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The Philanthropist, Or, Repository for Hints and Suggestions ..., Volume 1

1811 - 424 pages
...kindred drops, been mingled into one. — Thus man devotes his brother and destroy!— Then what is man i And what man seeing this, And having human feelings,...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" cowrn. As the professed object of the Philanthropist is " to encourage benevolent feelings," (for...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1812 - 390 pages
...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 him,...sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart Weegs, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And having...
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Keeper's Travels in Search of His Master

Edward Augustus Kendall - 1812 - 192 pages
...monsters, whose whole occupation was to render every thing around them miserable. He was ready to ask, " Then what is man? And what man seeing this, " And...human feelings, does not blush " And hang his head, to own himself a man ?" COWPER. He knew some exceptions. Had he not been well treated by some, even in...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1813 - 276 pages
...and exaets his sweat With stripes, that merey, with a bleeding heart, *.Weeps when she sees inflieted on a beast. Then what is man ! And what man seeing...this. And having human feelings, does not blush And ha'ig his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me,,...
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Poems by William Cowper ...

William Cowper - 1814 - 496 pages
...destroys; And, worse than all, and most to be deplor'd As hnman natnre's broadest, fonlest blot, Chaius him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy wilh a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man? And what man, seeing...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...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 him,...himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my grounjl, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble, when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1815 - 338 pages
...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 him,...think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to titl my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth,...
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A Solemn Review of the Custom of War: Showing that War is the Effect of ...

Noah Worcester - 1816 - 814 pages
...; and yet we have the effrontery to boast that we are a just, peaceable and magnanimous nation ! " Then what is man ? And what man seeing this, And having...not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" KENTUCKY PEACE ASSOCIATION. From the Lexington (Ken.) Monitor. •c THE citizens of Lexington consider...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - 1816 - 328 pages
...worse than all, and most to be dcplor'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, aud tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a blooding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Tht-n what is man ? And what man, seeing...
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The Art of Reading: Containing a Number of Useful Rules, Exemplified by a ...

Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...brother, and destroys; A nd, worse than all, and mos» to be deplor d, As human nature s broadest, foultst blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing thy', And having hunan feelings, does not blush, And hang bis head, to think himself a man ? I wou'd...
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