 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
 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 562 страница
...temporize, and dumbly stand at rest, While Pity's burning flood of words is red-hot in the breast! we have nobler duties first; The traitor to Humanity is the traitor Though we break our fathers' promise, most accursed; Man is more than Constitutions ; better rot beneath... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1891 - 560 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 to Humanity is the traitor most amirsed ; Man is more than Constitutions ; better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to Church and State... | |
 | Albert Shaw - 1892 - 790 страница
...Empire, there was the ready reply .— Though we break our father's promise, we have nobler duties in-i The traitor to Humanity is the traitor most accursed...Church and State while we are doubly false to God ! While to those who trembled at the emancipation of Bulgaria as if it portended the general overthrow... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1893 - 386 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...Church and State while we are doubly false to God I We owe allegiance to the State ; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set within... | |
 | 1893 - 648 страница
...truth embodied in the words of the poet: — ''The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accused; Man is more than constitutions : better rot beneath...church and state while we are doubly false to God." But how far we have wandered with Grace Darling and her boat. Perhaps our readers will not think it... | |
 | 1893 - 1072 страница
...same. James Russell Lowell has put the idea so well I can do no better than to give his own words: "Man is more than constitutions, Better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to church and State, And be doubly false to God. Our country claims our fealty; I grant it so; but then Before man made... | |
 | Dr. Paul Carus - 1894 - 84 страница
...historic traitors coursing " through his veins, and inspiring his genius as he wrote; has told "us that 'The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed; "man is more than constitutions.' The great newspaper aforesaid "insinuates also that ' the time has come when heroic treatment is "necessary,... | |
 | Andrew Reid - 1895 - 332 страница
...future will yield to it. FRANCES HICKS. THE NEW PARTY : ITS PRINCIPLES, ITS HOPES, AND ITS IDEALS " Man is more than constitutions : better rot beneath the sod Than be true to Church and State, while we're doubly false to God. Our country claims our fealty — we grant it so ; but then, Before she... | |
 | James Russell Lowell - 1896 - 528 страница
...at rest, While Pity's burning flood of words is redhot in the breast ! Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler duties first; The traitor...Church and State while we are doubly false to God I We owe allegiance to the State; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set within... | |
 | 1896 - 1224 страница
...I detest, The traitor still I love. /. HOOLE — Metastat'ui. Romulus and Ilcrsilia. Act I. Sc. 5. no more. b. I'OVE— Elaine to Abelard. L. 361. Days...Clothed in sorrow's dark array, — Days of absence, (i. LOWELL— On the Capture of Certain Fugitive Slaves near Washington, Hast thou betrayed my credulous... | |
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