 | Wilson Armistead - 1848 - 668 sider
...men, Is evil; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Unfit to be the tenant of man's noble form." * The great doctrine, that God hath " created all men... | |
 | Alexander Melville Bell - 1849 - 356 sider
...- hurts the faculties, - impedes Their progress - in the road - to science ; blinds The eyesight - of discovery ; and begets In those - that suffer it...unfit To be the tenant - of man's noble form. The bird - let loose - in eastern skies, When hastening fondly - home, Ne'er stoops - to earth - her wing,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1849 - 740 sider
...evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes 450 Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets In those that suffer it,...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. 455 Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as thou art, With all thy loss of empire, and though squeezed... | |
 | 1854 - 672 sider
...Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery, and begets, In those that suffer it,...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form." My young friends will be glad to learn that Cowper was one of the first to denounce the Slave-trade,... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1849 - 498 sider
...progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets In those that suflfer it a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form." CHAPTER VII JOHN ADAMS, ORATOR OF BLENDED ENTHUSIASM AND SOBRIETY. JOHN ADAMS was born at Quincy, then... | |
 | 1849 - 470 sider
...Is evil — hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, MEMORY'S MUSIC. Sister ! thou lingerest by the streams for ever onward flowing, And thou listenest... | |
 | Edward Farr - 1850 - 346 sider
...Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of silence ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets In those that suffer it...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form." — COWPER. It is remarkable, that the ancient Persians, like the Hindoos, never produced a single... | |
 | 1850 - 824 sider
...progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of discovery, and begets lu those that sutler it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meagre intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form." Many illustrations might be added to show the essential in the poetry of all ages — but what need... | |
 | William Cowper - 1850 - 516 sider
...men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science, blinds The eyesight of Discovery ; and begets, In those that suffer it, a sordid mind, Bestial, a meager intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee therefore still, blame-worthy as... | |
 | 1851 - 592 sider
...men, Is evil : hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science; blinds The eyesight of discovery; and begets In those that suffer it a...intellect, unfit To be the tenant of man's noble form. Thee, therefore, still, blameworthy as thou art, Thee I account still happy, and the chief Among the... | |
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Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume ; And we are weeds without it. All constraint, Except what wisdom lays on evil men, Is evil ; hurts the faculties, impedes Their progress in the road of science ; blinds The eyesight of discovery ; and begets, In... 
