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Date: November 9, 1779
"Thus, conscience freed from ev'ry clog, / Mahometans eat up the hog."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"He [the slave] feels his body's bondage in his mind, / Puts off his generous nature, and, to suit / His manners with his fate, puts on the brute."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)
Date: 1782
"The pride of letter'd ignorance, that binds / In chains of error our accomplish'd minds, / That decks with all the splendour of the true, / A false religion, is unknown to you."
preview | full record— Cowper, William (1731-1800)