...this respect, and has ventured to put his name to these stupendous lines : — ' God's most perfect instrument In working out a pure intent Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, Carnage is God's daughter.' It would be difficult to imagine anything more shocking and more immoral than this....

...before thee, and we laud And magnify thy name,, Almighty God! But thy most dreaded instrument In wrting out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter,— Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !' p. 17. "What strange and revolting phraseology, to use the mildest term, is this ! How utterly at...

...point their terrors, We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a...dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine arm from peril guards the coasts Of them who in thy laws delight : Thy presence turns the scale...

...peculiar effect. Note 2, page 115, line 14. " Carnage" (so Wordsworth tells you) " is God's daughter." " But thy* most dreaded instrument " In working out...mutual slaughter ; " Yea, Carnage is thy daughter !" WORDSWORTH'S Thanksgiving Ode. Note 3, page 120, line 8. Was printed Grove, although his name was...

...syllahle, which gives it a very wild and peculiar effect. t '• Hut Mi/11 mostdreadful instrument " sn working out a pure intent, "Is man arrayed for mutual slaughter; " Yea, Carnage is thy daug/*tr.'" WORDSWORTH'S T/anksgMng Ode. y To wit, tha Deity's: this is perhaps as pretty a pedigree...

...Note 2, page 386, stanza ix. « Carnage, (so Wordsworth tells you) is God's danghter: etc. But tlty ' most dreaded instrument In working out a pure intent,...man arrayed for mutual slaughter; Yea, carnage is tliy daughter! WORDSWORTH'S, Thanksgiving Odc. 1 To »ii. Ihr Diiiy'1i Ihiiii pirfaapi H preny » pedigree...

...point their terrors, We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure...dazzling mail, And by thy just permission they prevail ; Thine arm from peril guards the coasts Of them who in thy laws delight : Thy presence turns the scale...

...point their terrors, We bow our heads before Thee, and we laud And magnify thy name, Almighty God ! But thy most dreaded instrument In working out a pure...is thy daughter! Thou cloth'st the wicked in their diluting mail, And by thy just permission they prevail; Thine arm from peril guards the coasts Of them...

...magnify Thy name, Almighty God! Rnt thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, I« Man — arrayed for mutual slaughter, — Yea, Carnage...the wicked in their dazzling mail. And by thy just pcrmiision they prevail ; Thine ami from peril guards the coasts Of them -who in thy laws delighti...

...Wordsworth says in his " Thanksgiving Ode for the Battle of Waterloo," that " Carnage is God's daughter." " But thy most dreaded instrument, In working out a pure intent, Is man, arrayed for mutual slaughter ; Yeaf Carnage is thy daughter." How poor and wilful, how presumptuous, and at the same time misgiving,...