| George Bancroft - 1841 - 366 páginas
...walls of a prison could not hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, " Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice." In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament; and, as a commissioner for inquiring... | |
| 1841 - 598 páginas
...hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, — 'Where sickness pince, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.' " In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament, and, aз a commissioner for inquiring... | |
| Jared Sparks - 1844 - 438 páginas
...woe, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Where misery moans unpitied and unheard, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ? " But Oglethorpe was not the man to be weary in well-doing, because he enjoyed the triumph of immediate... | |
| John Thomas Smith - 1846 - 484 páginas
...woe, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy gaol, Unpitied and unheard where misery moans, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn. And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ; While in the laud of liberty — the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
| George Bancroft - 1846 - 528 páginas
...of a prison could not hide from his merciful eye, he searched into the gloomy horrors of jails, ^ " Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice." In 1728, he invoked the interference of the English parliament ; and, as a commissioner for inquiring... | |
| New-York Historical Society - 1821 - 422 páginas
...band Who, touched with human wo, redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy jail, Unpitied and unheard where misery mourns, Where sickness pines,...hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ?" fee. be. €8 once, the habits of his youth, and approved himself the hardy, daring, and adventurous... | |
| James Thomson - 1847 - 504 páginas
...redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? 361 ITnpitied, and unheard, where misery moans ; Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice.* * In no period of the history of civilisation has any subject engaged the attention of legislators,... | |
| John Field - 1848 - 192 páginas
...redressive search 'd " Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? " Unpitied, and unheard, where mis'ry moans ; " Where sickness pines ; where thirst and hunger burn, " And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice. * * * " O great design ! if executed well, " With patient care, and wisdom-temper'd zeal, " Yo sous... | |
| Charles Wesley - 1849 - 556 páginas
...redressive search'd Into the horrors of the gloomy jail ? Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans, Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor Misfortune feels the lash of Vice. While in the land of liberty, the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
| John Heneage Jesse - 1850 - 502 páginas
...redressive searched Into the horrors of the gloomy gaol, Unpitied and unheard where misery moans ? Where sickness pines, where thirst and hunger burn, And poor misfortune feels the lash of vice ? While in the land of liberty, — the land Whose every street and public meeting glow With open freedom,... | |
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