 The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the axe be bared; For him the gibbet shall be built; For him the stake prepared: Him...  Annals of Cleveland - Page 220by United States. Work Projects Administration (Ohio) - 1937Full view - About this book
 | Phrenology - 1848 - 396 pages
...poet Charleg Mackay, that we could not read a more graphic sketch than in his beautiful lines: '• The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, In wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distill; For him the... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1844 - 468 pages
...90,31. 22,23. 24,25,26. ETERNAL JUSTICE. THE MOON'S PLACK: Plod in thy cave, gray anchorite I THJE man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind. Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil ; For him the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1847 - 136 pages
...lofty line, Shall have her day—then fade away, And all her empire shall be mine." 4ETERNAL JUSTICE. THE man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the... | |
 | Phrenology - 1887 - 480 pages
...philosophy to explore and dissipate it, as far as possible, for mystery is the foe of human progress. " The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot plotting crime, Who for the advancement of his kind Is wiser than his time." The psychometric impression from the manuscript... | |
 | Robert Kemp Philp - 580 pages
...of novelty. In England, according to the grand but painfully true poem of Charles Mackay — • 41 The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time." And certain it is, that the really great men... | |
 | Maria Weston Chapman - 1856 - 226 pages
...Reformer in all ages, and of the ultimate success of his cause, the Scottish poet, MACKAT, well says : — "The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - Abolitionists - 1852 - 428 pages
...ought to die ' — 'It is better that one man should die, than that the whole nation should perish.' ' The man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil; For him the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Poetry - 1853 - 394 pages
...lofty line, Shall have her day — then fade away, And all her empire shall be mine.' ETERNAL JUSTICE. THE man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil ; For him the... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Songs, English - 1855 - 258 pages
...lofty line, Shall have her day — then fade away, And all her empire shall be mine." ETERNAL JUSTICE. THE man is thought a knave or fool, Or bigot, plotting crime, Who, for the advancement of his kind, Is wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distil ; For him the... | |
 | Austin Kent - Free love - 1857 - 156 pages
...'>il •;.•'• •-.: -ilid ]•«;> !>••• \-t l-.n \l >.;: B: ,l.."ini.( |T •tt ETEKNAL JUSTICE. BY CHARLES MACKAY. The man is thought a knave...bigot, plotting crime, Who for advancement of his kind la wiser than his time. For him the hemlock shall distill ; For him the axe be bared ; For him the... | |
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