 Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties first; The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God...  Typographical Journal - Страница 441896Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1856 - 418 страница
...maxims of power incurs the same offence while invoking great names of virtue ; though, as a poet says, " we have nobler duties first ; The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed." The refinement of a false civilization, even when abhorring war, ignores humanity when "minions of... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 812 страница
...at rest, While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast ! Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties first ; The traitor...true to Church and State while we are doubly false to Gc J i We owe allegiance to the State ; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - 1860 - 756 страница
...words is red-hot in the breast " Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties 6rst, The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;...Church and State, while we are doubly false to God. 1 We owe our allegiance to the State, but deeper, truer more To the sympathies that God hath set within... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 страница
...flood of words is red-hot in the breast I Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler dutics first ; The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most...Church and State while we are doubly false to God I We owe allegiance to the State ; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathics that God hath set within... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - 1864 - 360 страница
...blood. His motto is, and must be, as one loyal to right and duty, no Union with slaveholders." " ' Man is more than constitutions — Better rot beneath...church and state, While we are doubly false to God." Thus, we have a clue to what the opponents of the Democracy mean by "loyalty. ;? It is the touch stone... | |
 | George Washington Julian - 1872 - 512 страница
...under our feet some of the most vital principles of the Constitution, under the exigencies of war. " Man is more than constitutions ; better rot beneath...Church and State, while we are doubly false to God." But so far as emancipation is concerned, constitutional difficulties, if any existed, are no longer... | |
 | Oliver Johnson - 1879 - 458 страница
...he had shown himself worthy of his New England blood. As Lowell " Man is more than [institutions]; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State, while we are doubly false to God." Some of the exiled students completed their education in the freer air of Oberlin, while a few did... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1880 - 662 страница
...and dumbly stand at rest, While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast ! Though we break our father's promise, we have nobler duties...Church and State while we are doubly false to God I -J We owe allegiance to the State ; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set... | |
 | 1880 - 932 страница
...to blow the liberation spark into a sacred flame, is to be found in such pathetic utterances as — The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed...Church and State while we are doubly false to God ! And again : He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done To the humblest and the weakest,... | |
 | Oliver Johnson - 1881 - 526 страница
...he had shown himself worthy of his New England blood. As Lowell " Man is more than [institutions] ; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State, while we are doubly i'alse to God." Some of the exiled students completed their educatiou in the freer air of Oberlin,... | |
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