...Tfll truth were freed, and equity restor'd : Yet held it more humane, more heavenly first By wmning shown On Man by him seduc'd ; but on himself Treble confusion, wrath an ; At least to try. and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unaware Misled ; the stubborn...

...tyrannic power, Till truth were freed and equity restored; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. There was a synagogue at Nazareth. In it the law was read and religious instruction given. Thither,...

...tyrannic power, Till truth were freed and equity restor'd ; Yet held it more humane, more heavenly, first By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear, — At least to try, and teach the erring soul Not wilfully misdoing, but unware Misled, the stubborn...

...power, Till truth were freed, and equity restored." Yet He "Held it more humane, more heavenly, first, By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear. At least to try, and teach the erring soul Not wilfully misdoing, not unware Misled : the stubborn...

...their fellow men. It seems to me that we are not left in igno1 As Milton exquisitely expresses it : " By winning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear." PAR. RKG. b. I. More grandly is the same principle expressed and exemplified. " We are ambassadors...

...obstinacy, or stupidity which deserved it). Milton, as a poet, beautifully suggests to us— " By willing words, to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear." But when, as a schoolmaster, writing his treatise on Education, he talks suspiciously of " mild and...

...disfigure the text, by inserting the loyal parenthesis, " (excepting the members of our own royal family.") This is the man required by liberty. The want of the...willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear 1 " May a gallant and generous people second you, and the Power which preserved Washington sustain...

...still against the banner of blood! Strive still against the reign of terror! Aim still " By wiuning words to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion...peace, order, freedom to your country ! " Si qua fata nspera rumpas, Tu Marcellus eris." * But, fellow-citizens, while we thus commend the character and...

...tyrannic power, Till truth were freed, and equity restor'd : Yet held it more humane, more heavenly first business, all his pleasure praise. A life so sacred, ; At least to try, and teach the erring soul, Not wilfully misdoing, but unaware Misled ; the stubborn...

...to the doctrines of Christianity ? — whose avowed motive and maxim is, in the words of Milton, " By winning words, to conquer willing hearts, And make persuasion do the work of fear." All historians are not agreed in some circumstances of the preceding relation ; but they generally...