| William Cowper - 1817 - 248 páginas
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — Then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave, That...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Thafs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
| Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 páginas
...western field ; * Non civium ardor prava jubentium, Non vultus instaotis Tyranni Monte quatit solida. -]- Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...free, They touch our Country, and their shackles fall. £ " And this spirit of liberty is so deeply implanted in our Constitution, and rooted even in our... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 252 páginas
...as, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves caunot hreathe in England; if their lungs THE TIME-PIECE. f7 Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That is nohle, and hespeaks a nation proad And jealous of the hlessing. Spread it Ihen, And let it... | |
| William Cowper - 1817 - 240 páginas
...slave, And wear the honds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why ahroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave, That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves caunot hreathe in England ; if their lungs Receive oar air, that moment they are free... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1817 - 290 páginas
...him. We have no slaves at home ; then why abroad'?' And they themselves, one* ferried o'er the wav$ That parts us, are emancipate and loos*d. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunge beceive our air, that moment they are free ; They toucU our countiy, and their ,hackles fall,... | |
| 1819 - 576 páginas
...whatever are the defects of our Constitution in principle or in practice, thanks be to God — • Slaves cannot breathe in England — if their lungs...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing." What are the friends of God and man in America doing, that with stern countenance and unremitting energy,... | |
| 1819 - 596 páginas
...disadvantage, with that of the United States on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that — ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.' Of this, however, Mr. Feajon knows nothing — he found it not in the enlightened pages of the Examiner... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1819 - 592 páginas
...disadvantage, with that of the United States on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that— ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing.' Of this, however, Mr. Fearon knows nothing — he found it not in the enlightened pages of the Examiner... | |
| 1819 - 594 páginas
...And whatever are tlie defects of our Constitution in principle or in practice, thanks bo to God — ' Slaves cannot breathe in England — if their lungs...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They roucli our country, aim their shackle^ full ;• That's noble — and bespeaks a nation pioud And jealous... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1819 - 448 páginas
...slave, And wear, the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and Itos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
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