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" ... granted all their wishes, filled their houses with wealth, made them happy in love and victorious in war. Such a spirit is Liberty. At times she takes the form of a hateful reptile. She grovels, she hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust... "
An Essay on the Origin, Character, and Tendency of Creeds and Confessions of ... - Page 66
by John Mason Duncan - 1834 - 262 pages
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An Essay on Liberty and Slavery

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - History - 1856 - 384 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory." For aught we know, all this may be very fine poetry, and may deserve the place which it has found in...
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An Essay on Liberty and Slavery

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Slavery - 1856 - 396 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory." For aught we know, all this may be very fine poetry, and may deserve the place which it has found in...
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An Essay on Liberty and Slavery

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1856 - 442 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...by her in the time of her beauty and her glory-." For aught we know, all this may be very fine poetry, and may deserve the place which it has found in...
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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: A Series of Practical Lessons ...

George Payn Quackenbos - English language - 1857 - 470 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her! And happy are those, who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...frightful shape, shall at length be rewarded by her ia the time of her beauty and glory." § 409. A definition may be amplified by presenting the meaning...
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Christian Pamphlets, Volume 8

African Americans - 1858 - 1094 pages
...pass that before they call I will answer, and while they are yet speaking I will hear.'" LIBERTY. — There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom I When a prisoner leaves his cell he cannot bear the light of day ; he is unable to discriminate colors...
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The Religious Aspects of the Age: With a Glance at the Church of the Present ...

Martin Thatcher, Orren Hutchinson - Theology - 1858 - 204 pages
...of the appetites. So indeed it seems. But as Mr. Macaulay says, in his famous article on Milton : " There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom." It is in precisely such cases as these that the conciliating policy is needful, and the exclusive policy...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pages
...hisses, she stings. But wo to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are ihn.se hold gods. St. George took the place of Mars. St. Elmo consoled the mariner for the l b« rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory. There is only one cure for the evils which...
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Essays, Critical and Miscellaneous

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1859 - 768 pages
...are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and frightful shape, shall at length he rewarded by her in the time of her beauty and her glory. There is only one cure for the eviU which newly acquired freedom produces — and that cure is fradoml When a prisoner leaves his...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1860 - 1084 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...bear the light of day : he is unable to discriminate colours, or recognise faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom...
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Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays, Volumes 1-2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1897 - 1102 pages
...hisses, she stings. But woe to those who in disgust shall venture to crush her ! And happy are those who, having dared to receive her in her degraded and...bear the light of day: he is unable to discriminate colours, or recognise faces. But the remedy is, not to remand him into his dungeon, but to accustom...
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