 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...  Poems - Page 27by William Cowper - 1817Full view - About this book
 | Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...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 every...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cowper. VICE AND VIRTUE. FOOLS but too oft into the notion fall, That Vice or Virtue there is none... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - 326 pages
...nohle! and hespeaks a nation prond And jealous of the hlessing. Spread it then, And let it cireulate through every vein Of all your empire : that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her merey too. TЦЕ NEGRO'S DEPARTURE FROM AFRICA. 8HENSTOHE. ON the wild heath in mournful goise he stood... | |
 | John Jackson (of Hull.) - China - 1829 - 52 pages
...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." 22 there, and take the oversight of an indigo manufactory belonging to Mr. U. Dr. Carey set off on... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...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 every...Between the nations in a world that seems To toll the deathbell of its own decease, And by the voice of all its elements To preach the general doom.* When... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empiie ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there...Between the nations in a world, that seems To toll the death-bell of it's own decease, And by the voice of all it's elements To preach the gen'ral doom.*... | |
 | James Peggs - Hindu ethics - 1830 - 556 pages
...British character be manifest wherever it is seen, and the sentiment of the Poet be regarded : — • Spread it then ; And let it circulate through every...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too !" COWPEE. y. = < a o « K K = Q (H a o K « -£ t; O BOOK III. BRITISH CONNEXION WITH IDOLATRY. CHAP.... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1830 - 416 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud 40 And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate thtough every vein Of all your empire; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cowptr. 71. Irruption of Hyder All. When at length Hyder Ali found that he had to do with men who either... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Antislavery movements - 1830 - 240 pages
...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 every 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vain Of all your empire ; that, where Briton's d stands: When lo ! the self-same lion from his cage...Flies to devour him, famished into rage. He flics, death bell of its own decease, And by the »oicc of all its elements To preach the general doom.* When... | |
 | William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...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 every...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too ! COWPER'S TASK. The following is an extract from the Rev. Mr. Newton'f 'Thoughts on the African Slave... | |
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