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The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of ... - Page 189
by Thomas Clarkson - 1808
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Poems ... To which is prefixed a memoir of the author, by John M'Diarmid ...

William Cowper - 1837 - 534 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges, Agents of his will to use ? Hark ! he answers — wild tornadoes. Strewing yonder...habitations Where his whirlwinds answer— no. By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks receiv'd the chain ; By the mis'ries that we tasted, Crossing...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq: Comprising His Poems ..., Volume 10

William Cowper - 1837 - 436 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges Agents of his will to use ? Hark ! he answers ! — Wild tornadoes Strewing yonder...habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No. By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks received the chain ; By the miseries that we tasted, Crossing...
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The National Preceptor: Or, Selections in Prose and Poetry; Consisting of ...

Jesse Olney - Readers - 1838 - 346 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges, Agents of his will to use f 5. Hark ! he answers — wild tornadoes,* Strewing yonder...tyrants' habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No. 6. By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks receiv'd the chain ; By the mis'ries that we tasted,...
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The Demons of the Wind: And Other Poems

Henry Longueville Mansel - Bookbinding - 1838 - 128 pages
...la their One who reigns on high, Has he bid you buy and sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Hark ! he answers. Wild tornadoes Strewing yonder...vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fix'd their tyrant's habitations Where his whirlwinds answer, 'No !' " Cowper. B2 Sing we loud, in festive mirth,...
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The Rhetorical Reader: Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1838 - 316 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges Agents of his will to use ? 5 (0) Hark! — he answers; — wild tornadoes, Strewing...foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fixed their tyrants' habitations Where his WHIRLWINDS answer — NO. 6 By our blood in Afric wasted,...
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The Rhetorical Reader Consisting of Instructions for Regulating the Voice ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1839 - 316 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duly urges Agents of his will to use? 5 (0) Hark! — he answers; — wild tornadoes, Strewing...foreseeing what vexations Afric's sons should undergo, Fixed their tyrants' habitations Where his WHIRLWINDS answer — jfo. 6 By our blood in Afric wasted,...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...Agents of his will to use I Hark ! He answers ! — Wild tornadoes Strewing yonder sea with wreeks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice...habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No. By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our neeks reeeived the chain ; By the miseries that we tasted, Crossing...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett ..., Volume 2

William Leggett - Political science - 1840 - 344 pages
...sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Hark ! he an were ; wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder coast with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. OUR readers will see, in our summary of the proceedings of Congress, that when the petition of certain...
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A Collection of the Political Writings of William Leggett, Volume 2

William Leggett - United States - 1840 - 346 pages
...sell us, Speaking from his throne, the sky ? Hark ! he anwers ; wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder coast with wrecks, Wasting towns, plantations, meadows, Are the voice with which he speaks. OUR readers will see, in our summary of the proceedings of Congress, that when the petition of certain...
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Poems, by William Cowper, Esq: Together with His Posthumous Poetry ..., Volume 1

William Cowper - 1841 - 260 pages
...scourges, Matches, blood-extorting screws, Are the means that duty urges Agents of his will to use ? Hark ! he answers — wild tornadoes, Strewing yonder...habitations Where his whirlwinds answer — No. By our blood in Afric wasted, Ere our necks receiv'd the chain ; By the mis'ries that we tasted, Crossing...
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