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
| Lucy Tappan - 1896 - 350 страница
...naught that sets one heart at ease, And giveth happiness or peace, Is low-esteemed in her eyes. MY LOVE. MAN is more than Constitutions ; better rot beneath...Church and State while we are doubly false to God! ON THE CAPTURE OF FUGITIVE SLAVES. 'Tis ours to save our brethren, with peace and love to win Their... | |
| James Russell Lowell - 1897 - 580 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 t We owe allegiance to the State ; but deeper, truer, more, To the sympathies that God hath set within... | |
| Helen Douglass - 1897 - 368 страница
...into the broad sunlight, a man and a freeman. He believed that, as Lowell beautifully expressed it: "Man is more than Constitutions. Better rot beneath the sod, Than be true to State and Church, while doubly false to God. ' ' I do not think that Mr. Douglass was a special creation,... | |
| P. Wilson - 1898 - 296 страница
...and venerable than any other, and that is the soul, and constitution of Man"— " Though we break pur father's promise, we have nobler duties first; The...Church and State, while we are doubly false to God." Touring in Italy, Lowell declares that his favourite gallery was just the street, the men and women... | |
| 1899 - 828 страница
...professor of Harvard, the scholar, the poet, the gentleman, who wrote: " Though we break our fathers' promise we have nobler duties first ; The traitor...Church and State, while we are doubly false to God." What kind of a government is this? A five-headed government: first the constitution ; second the House... | |
| Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 430 страница
...burning flood of words is red-hot in the breas Though we break our fathers' promise, we have nobler dut. The traitor to humanity is the traitor most accursed;...is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath the so< Than be true to Church and State, while we are doubly fals; We owe allegiance to the State; but... | |
| 1906 - 810 страница
...purpose of the law Hath full relation to the penalty, Which here appeareth due upon the bond Ibid, 1 Man is more than Constitutions; better rot beneath...true to Church and State while we are doubly false to God1 LOwELL, On the Capture of Fugitive Slaves near Washington, st, 5 There is a higher law than the... | |
| 1898 - 726 страница
...rule of conduct both between man and man and between nation and nation. Though we break our fathers' promise we have nobler duties first ; The traitor...Church and State while we are doubly false to God ! He's true to God who's true to man ; wherever wrong is done, To the humblest and the weakest, 'Death... | |
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