 | American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Humanities - 1898 - 600 pages
...extended, opening broader fields and more numerous ways to the attainment of the common welfare. " Of what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail i " I had completed the essay of which this is a digest some time ago ; and on reading it aloud,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 234 pages
...the few, We hold like rights and shall ; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? The noble craftsman we promote, Disown the knave and fool ; Each honest man shall have his vote,... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1876 - 516 pages
...blame If Indians seized the tea, And, chest by chest, let down the same Into the laughing sea? For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? The townsmen braved the English king, Found friendship in the French, And Honor joined the patriot... | |
 | Joseph Parrish Thompson - United States - 1877 - 362 pages
...nobler key, and sings, — " Each honest man shall have his vote, Each child shall have his school ; For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? " Yes, the merchants of Boston were men ; and noble, princely men have they been. But, from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - English poetry - 1878 - 292 pages
...the few, We hold like rights and shall ; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? The noble craftsman we promote, Disown the knave and fool; Each honest man shall have his vote,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 638 pages
...the few, We hold like rights and shall ; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail? The noble craftsman we promote, Disown the knave and fool; Each honest man shall have his vote,... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Corn laws (Great Britain) - 1880 - 144 pages
... THE. LESSONS OF THE ENGLISH CORN LAWS APPLIED TO THE UNITED STATES. BY SAMUEL S. COX. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land, or life, if freedom fail? — EMERsoN. NEW YORK GP PUTNAM'S SONS 27 AND 29 WEST 23D STREET 1884 COPYRIGHT BY GP PUTNAM'S... | |
 | Joseph Cook - Cooperation - 1880 - 326 pages
...dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights and shall; Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? The noble craftsmen we promote, Disown the knave and fool: Each honest man shall have his vote,... | |
 | Mary Elizabeth Sargent - Essays - 1880 - 452 pages
...the few, We hold like rights and shall, — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall. For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail ? The noble craftsman we promote, Disown the knave and fool ; Each honest man shall have his vote,... | |
 | William E. Matthews - African American authors - 1881 - 42 pages
...South, and placed unalterably on the side of the free States, and all this for freedom's sake. " For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if Freedom fail ? " This movement was led and guided by one of the bravest leaders, grandest hearts, and finest... | |
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We grant no dukedoms to the few, We hold like rights, and shall ; — Equal on Sunday in the pew, On Monday in the mall, For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail... 
