 | 1847 - 480 pages
...make " Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wronff are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." It has been a question with us, and one at the present time entitled to come attention and consideration,... | |
 | 1848 - 914 pages
...Mantles the earth wiih darkiuys— until right And wrong are accidents — and men grow pale Lest Iheir own judgments should become too bright, And their...thoughts be crimes, and earth ' have too much light. The operation of blood-letting is so associated in the minds of most men, with the practice of physic,... | |
 | Samuel Dickson - 1850 - 230 pages
...and TRUTH a gem that loves the deep, And all things weighed in Citstom's falsest scale. Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light !" The operation of Blood-letting is so associated, in the minds of most men, with the practice of... | |
 | 1850 - 574 pages
...and truth a gem that loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with...too bright, And their free thoughts be crimes, and oavth have too much light. Of all the problems of the times, this is the most perplexing to me. Every... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1851 - 352 pages
...narrow, and our reason frail, Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion and omnipotence,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light. xciv. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | William Lloyd Garrison - 1852 - 428 pages
...and TRUTH a gem that loves the deep, And all things weighed in CUSTOM'S falsest scale ; OPINION an omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light! ' It is never for the people to be afraid of light, or willing to be tongue-tied. They cannot think... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 1024 pages
...narrow, and our reason frail,* Life short, and truth a gem which îoves the deep, And all things weigh'd es < - < - x< - 1C IV. And thus they plod m sluggish misery, Rotting from sire to eon, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1853 - 502 pages
...cnstom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence,—whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, nntil right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own jndgments shonld beeome too bright, And their free thonghts be crimes, and earth have too mnch light.... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1854 - 1126 pages
...narrow, and our reason frail, <s Life short, and truth a gem which loves the deep, And all things weigh'd XCIV. And thus they plod in sluggish misery, Hotting from sire to son, and age to age, Proud of their... | |
 | Mary Langdon - 1854 - 506 pages
...lose her only friend. 12 CHAPTER VII. " All things are weighed in custom's falsest scale, Opinion is omnipotence, whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness,...thoughts be crimes, and earth have too much light." CUILDE HAROLD. THE plantation of Richard Wynn, Esq., was situated somewhere in the green and beautiful... | |
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And all things weigh'd in custom's falsest scale ; Opinion an omnipotence — whose veil Mantles the earth with darkness, until right And wrong are accidents, and men grow pale Lest their own judgments should become too bright, And their free thoughts... 
