Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt ? No! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free... The Advance Advocate - Page 7251908Full view - About this book
| 1901 - 744 pages
...to help other nations to maintain their rights. For, after all, as James Russell Lowell asks : " Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." This is the creed of Liberalism as Gladstone understood it, and as it is in itself independently of... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1844 - 576 pages
...When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves, who will not... | |
| Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1844 - 582 pages
...When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves, who will not... | |
| 1845 - 234 pages
...r? • 5 • •& ' -e ; * 1 1* v Mr « 1 " ' * 1 • 1 f S P z 1 c • S£ PP I 1 to je freed 1 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...leathern hearts forget That we owe mankind a debt 1 No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear, And with hand and heart to be Earnest... | |
| 1849 - 478 pages
...chain, When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. 3 They are slaves, who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves, who will not choose... | |
| Church of the Disciples (Boston, Mass.) - 1852 - 674 pages
...When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...with heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free ! d They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves who will not choose... | |
| William Wells Brown - 1853 - 296 pages
...was to extend its blessing to his race, and in the language of the poet he would ask himself, " Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free." While acting as a servant to one of the steamers on Lake Erie, Brown often took fugitives from Cleveland... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 pages
...chain When it works a brother's pain, Are ye not base slaves indeed, Slaves unworthy to be freed ? 2 Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...heart and hand to be Earnest to make others free. 3 They are slaves who fear to speak For the fallen and the weak ; They are slaves, who will not choose... | |
| James Freeman Clarke - 1854 - 34 pages
...When it works a brother's pain, ' Are ye not base slaves indeed — Slaves unworthy to be freed ? Is true freedom, but to break Fetters for our own dear sake, And with leathern hearts forgot That we owe mankind a debt ? No ! true freedom is to share All the chains our brothers wear,... | |
| Charlotte Phillips - 1855 - 188 pages
...veins, For your sisters now in chains; Answer, are ye fit to be Mothers of the brave and free ? Is true freedom but to break Fetters for our own dear...Earnest to make others free ! They are slaves who will not choosa Hatred, scoffing, and abuse, Rather than in silence shrink From the truth they needs... | |
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