 I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.  Murray's English Reader - Page 245by Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 304 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, then fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home —...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. .Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, then fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home —...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself, the slave, And wear the bonds, tlum fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home— then...ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs JU'i « ! . i uur air, that moment they are... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
...have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the...him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad t And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1824 - 396 pages
...ever earn'd. No — dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. QUESTIONS. 1. Did human slavery extensively prevail among ancient nations ? — 2. How did Christianity... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the...ferried o'er the wave That parts us are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;. 1 had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the...at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves OHCC ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England... | |
 | Education - 1825 - 498 pages
...will not rest satisfied with approving and admiring, but that you will also endeavour to imitate. " We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad? And...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...ever earn'd. ^ 5. No : dear as freedom , and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; 1 had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home—then why abroad 1 And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate... | |
 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...ever earn'd. No — dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. ORIGIN OF AFRICAN SLAVERY. 1. THE very worst of all the consequences of the discovery of the new continent,... | |
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