 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...our air, that moment they are free ; They toucU our countiy, and their ,hackles fall, That's nohle, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing....through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain^ power Zu (tit, maoliuid щa; feel att merгу to<& THE ENGLISrJ READS«* CHAPTER IV. SECTION... | |
 | Richard Esmond Comerford - 1817 - 152 pages
...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 - English poetry - 1817 - 248 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave, That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...; 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Arrival of the Post in a Winter Evening — The Newspaper — The World contemplated at a distance... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...themselves once ferried o'er the waves That part us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breath in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that...ev'ry vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Section 111. REFLECTIONS ON A FUTURE STA1 FROM A REVIEW... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...why abroad ? And they themselves once feriied o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Ot all your empire ; that, where Hritain's pow'i. Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1819 - 592 pages
...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 - 596 pages
...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... | |
 | Baptists - 1819 - 576 pages
...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,... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. 
