 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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...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,... | |
 | Methodist Church - 1834 - 504 pages
...the first beams of whose sun melt his servile bonds ; and whose boast and glory it is to say, that ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall ;' — . Owing my earliest impressions to such a land, I can have no fellowship with... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave 35 That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 40 And jealous of the blessing. Spread it... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1830 - 240 pages
...why 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 our air, that moment they are free ; They loach our country. and their shackles fall.* That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...abroad 1 And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and toos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they arc free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That 's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves can not fN4HfN4 N4 shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...the wave That parts us are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungf 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,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 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...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,... | |
 | Law - 1924 - 594 pages
...(955-6)]. THE SLAVE IN ENGLAND. — It was no idle boast of William Cowper's — "Slaves cannot live in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free — but that was in 1783, more than a decade after Lord Mansfield had said in the case of the Negro,... | |
 | John Wesley Cromwell - African Americans - 1914 - 344 pages
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for... | |
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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. 
