 What! preach and kidnap men? Give thanks, and rob thy own afflicted poor? Talk of thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door? What! servants of thy own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the outcast, fettering down...  The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier ... - Page 136by John Greenleaf Whittier - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 580 pages
...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine?" The first stanza... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...Men who their hands with prayer and blessing lay On Israel's Ark of light ! What ! servants of thine own Merciful Son, who came to seek and save The homeless...— fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! These and other verses of a like kind show the moral purpose of Whittier's early work, which is perhaps... | |
 | 1846 - 302 pages
...men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine!... | |
 | 1846 - 308 pages
...rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door 1 What ! servants of Thy own Merciful Son, who came...The homeless and the outcast, — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1850 - 408 pages
...men ? Give thanks — and roh Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own...friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? Paid hypocrites,... | |
 | Wilson Armistead - 1853 - 384 pages
...men ! Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ! Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ! What ! servants of Thy own...The homeless and the outcast — fettering down The task'd and plunder'd slave ! Pilate and Herod friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine... | |
 | 1853 - 380 pages
...Christianity, and give not the holy name to that which violates its laws, and has none of its spirit. - " Just God, and holy ! Is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine?" Leeds Anti-Slavery Series. No. 19. Sold by W. and FG CASH, 5, Bishopsgate Street, London; and by JANE... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1854 - 566 pages
...has some good round invective, equally unfair, but rather more telling than that quoted above : — " Pilate and Herod, friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? " The first stanza... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1855 - 436 pages
...men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poor ? Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own...friends ! Chief priests and rulers, as of old, combine ! Just God and holy ! is that church, which lends Strength to the spoiler, Thine ? Paid hypocrites,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 752 pages
...kidnap men ? Give thanks — and rob Thy own afflicted poorf Talk of Thy glorious liberty, and then Bolt hard the captive's door ? What ! servants of Thy own...Son, who came to seek and save The homeless and the ontcast — fettering down The tasked and plundered slave ! Pilate and Herod, friends I Chief priests... | |
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