| James Plumptre - Animal welfare - 1816 - 98 pages
...difficult and distressing question. He says, I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that has... | |
| Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...*OPE. SECTION IV. Cruelty to Brutes censured, I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though grae'd with polish'd manners and fine sense , Yet wanting...sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. , An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that... | |
| Elizabeth Tomkins - English poetry - 1817 - 276 pages
...Prove that you have human feelings, Ere you proudly question ours ! CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. BY THE SAME. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends, (Though graced...sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 pages
...made the fool The victim of his own tremendous choice, And taught a hrute the way to safe revenge. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though graced with polished manners and tine sense, Yet wanting sensihility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a... | |
| Joseph Taylor - Insects - 1817 - 266 pages
...COWPER, ESQ. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends (Tho* graced with polished manners and fine ssnse, Yet wanting sensibility) the man, Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, That crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has... | |
| William Fordyce Mavor - 1818 - 178 pages
...My Mother. 5. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. By Cmvper. I WOULD not enter on my list of friends (Though grae'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path; But he that has... | |
| Richard Graves - Children - 1818 - 176 pages
...thea-^ tre ! Says the moralizing Cowper, " I would not number on my list of friends " (Tbo' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, " Yet wanting...sensibility) the man " Who needlessly sets foot upon a toorm." But to return to those " other things." — Some of them have been anticipated. Music has been... | |
| Conduct, George Nicholson - 1819 - 282 pages
...eminent poets, sing in the cause of humanity ! I would not enter on my list of friends, (tho' grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, yet wanting...sensibility) the man, who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertant step may crush the snail, that crawls at evening in the public path, but he that has... | |
| Albert Picket - Spellers - 1819 - 258 pages
...paradise below. CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. I would not enter on my list of friends (Though grac'd with polished manners and fine sense. Yet wanting sensibility) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush a snail That crawls at ev'ning in the public path ; But he that h.is... | |
| Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...ruin ! R. BLAIR. CRUELTY TO BRUTES CENSURED. I would not enter on my list of friends, (Though grac'd with polish'd manners and fine sense, Yet wanting...sensibility,) the man Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm. An inadvertent step may crush the snail, ThaJ crawls at evening in the public path ; But he that has... | |
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