 One murder made a villain Millions a hero. — Princes were privileged To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime. Ah ! why will kings forget that they are men ! And men that they are brethren? Why delight Inhuman sacrifice ? Why burst the ties Of nature,...  Wandering Thoughts, Or Solitary Hours - Page 83by Philip Tocque - 1846 - 387 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - Death - 1759 - 60 pages
...Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero. — Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers fanâified the crime. Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are...Men that they are brethren ? Why delight In human facrifice ? Why burft the ties Of Nature, that íhould knit their fouls together In one foft bond of... | |
 | University of Cambridge - College verse - 1772 - 352 pages
...Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero. — Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers fanftified the crime. Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are...Men that they are Brethren ? Why delight In human facrifice ? Why burft the ties Of Nature, that mould knit their fouls together In one foft bond of... | |
 | Beilby Porteus (bp. of London.) - Death - 1772 - 72 pages
...One Murder made a Villain, Millions a Hero. . Princes were privileg'd To kill, and numbers fanftified the crime. Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are...Men that they are brethren" ? Why delight In human facrifice ? Why burft the ties Of Nature, .that mould knit their fouls together In one foft bond of... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - Conduct of life - 1791 - 510 pages
...Murder made a Villain, Million! a Hero'. Princes were privilcg'd To kill ; and numbers ("anftificd the crime. Ah ! why will Kings forget that they are Men» And Men that they arc brethren ? Why delight In human facriiicc • Why burft the ties Of Nature, that mould knit their... | |
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...The foulest stain and scandal of our natu.fe t? * Became its boast. Om murder makes a villatrS.;" 1 Millions a hero. Princes were privileged To kill,...crime. Ah ! why will kings forget that they are men* r And men that they are brethren ? Why delignt." 1 In human sacrifice ? Whv burst the ties Of nature,.... | |
 | 1800 - 452 pages
...One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileg'd To kill, and number> fanctity'd the crime. Ah ! why will kings forget that they are...And men that they are brethren? why delight In human faciifice • Why buift the ties Of nature that mould knit their fouls together In one foft band of... | |
 | 1801 - 606 pages
...evidently meant to shew that the " treasonable prac" tices" committed by him and the other persons in" Ah, why will Kings forget that they are men? " And...delight " In human sacrifice? Why burst the ties " Of Nuturo, that should knit their souls together " In one soft bond of amity and love? " They yet still... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 496 pages
...murder makes a villain, " Millions a hero ; Princes are privileg'd " To kill, and numbers fanftify the crime. " Ah, why will Kings forget that they are men ? " And men, that they are 'urethren ? Why delight " In human facriflce ? Why burft the tics " Of Nature, that Ihould knit their... | |
 | Biography - 1801 - 602 pages
...meant to shew that the " treasonable prac" iices" committed by him and the oiher persons in" Ah, \vhy will Kings forget that they are men? *« And men that they are brethren? Why delight M In human sacrifice? Why burst the tics f Of Nature, that should knit their souls together " In one... | |
 | 1842
...appetites, and view as cold and insipid the warmth of affection, and the interchange of Charity : ' Ah ! why will kings forget that they are men— And men, that they are brethren. Why burst the ties Of nature, that should knit their souls together, ID one soft bond of amity and love.'... | |
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