 Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate...  The Task: In Six Books - Page 36by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Thatjs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt> mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | Prince Hoare - Abolitionists - 1828 - 456 pages
...moment they are free : They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. — Spread...Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too!'1 Page 138 (note). " last edition of his Commentaries." A letter referred to, in the former edition,... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread...every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy to. Cowper. IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL. Thp grave is not a place... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 414 pages
...free ; They touch our county, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 40 And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let...every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cowpcr. 71. Irruption of Hyder AH. When at length Hyder... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing, Spread...every vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cowper. VICE AND VIRTUE. FOOLS but too oft into the... | |
 | John Jackson (of Hull.) - China - 1829 - 52 pages
...moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy. too."... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...moment they are frei; ; They touch oar country, and their shackle; fall. That's noble ! and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate tbrough every vein Of all your empire: that where Britaia's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1830 - 240 pages
...moment they are free ; They loach our country. and their shackles fall.* That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread...vein Of all your empire. ..that where Britain's pow'r li felt, mankind may feel her mercy too." CHAPTER III. Forerunners continued.—Measures of the Quakers.... | |
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