 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.  The Task: In Six Books - Page 36by William Cowper - 1836 - 172 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1828 - 418 pages
...think himself a man ? 25 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, had ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's 30 Just estimation prized above all price,... | |
 | John Jackson (of Hull.) - China - 1829 - 52 pages
...I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and...as freedom is, and, in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself a slave, And wear the bonds that fasten them on... | |
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and...as freedom is, and, in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 532 pages
...a passage in Cowper : " 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." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such an ignoble service.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1829 - 216 pages
...to think himself a man ? 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 eanrd, 5. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - Europe - 1829 - 572 pages
...mind a passage in Cowper: " 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 hare eveream'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...wotild not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sfeep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. 5. No : dear as freedom is. and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd abo\e all price; J had much rather... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...I sleep, And tremhle when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized ahove all price, I had much rather he myself the slave, And wear the honds, than fasten them on him.... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...to think himself a man ? 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 hought and sold have erer earned. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1830 - 240 pages
...into one. Thus man devotes his brother. and destroys; And, worse than all, and most to be depler'd 4s human Nature's broadest. foulest blot. Chains him,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'iJNo : dear as freedom i». and in my heart's Just estimation prir d above aH price, I had much... | |
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