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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. "
Sketches of America, a narrative of a journey through the eastern and ... - Page 240
by Henry Bradshaw Fearon - 1818
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Mountains interpos'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 him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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Beauties of Cowper: To which are Prefixed, a Life of the Author and ...

William Cowper - English poetry - 1801 - 280 pages
...Mountains interpos'd E 3 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 him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...Mountains interpos'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 him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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Poems of Established Reputation: To Wit: 1st. The Art of Preserving Health

Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ; 20 And, worse than all, and most to be deplcr'd, As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exafts his sweat,, . . With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps, when she sees inflifted...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper: Of the Inner Temple, Esq, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one. . Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys ;. And,...foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his swe^t With 'stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who hnd else : Like kindred drops been mingled into one. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys; And, worse...nature's broadest, foulest; blot, Chains him, and talks him, and exact* his sweat With stripss, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, wben she sees...
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Poems, Volume 2

William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...and destroys ; And, worse than all, and most to he deplor'd As human nature's hroadest, foulest hlot, Chains him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy with a hleeding heart Weeps, when she sees indicted on a heast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this,...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...Mountains interpos'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 him, and tasks him, and exacts hb sweat...
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The Task: A Poem. In Six Books

William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...Mountains interpos'd Make enemies of nations, wlio 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 him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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The American Orator, Or, Elegant Extracts in Prose and Poetry: Comprehending ...

Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...Mountains iiaterpos'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 him, and tasks him, and exacts his sweat...
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