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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. "
Poems - Page 38
by William Cowper - 1819
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1817 - 290 pages
...him. We have no slaves at home ; then why abroad'?' And they themselves, one* ferried o'er the wav$ That parts us, are emancipate and loos*d. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunge beceive our air, that moment they are free ; They toucU our countiy, and their ,hackles fall,...
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The Quarterly review, Volume 21

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...
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The Baptist Magazine, Volume 11

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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The Quarterly Review, Volume 21

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...
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The baptist Magazine

1819 - 594 pages
...And whatever are tlie defects of our Constitution in principle or in practice, thanks bo to God — ' Slaves cannot breathe in England — if their lungs...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They roucli our country, aim their shackle^ full ;• That's noble — and bespeaks a nation pioud And jealous...
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Principles of Elocution: Containing Numerous Rules, Observations, and ...

Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and Itos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire. That where Britain's power Is felt, mankind...
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Poems

William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Staves caunot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air,...shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation prond And ;ealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate throngh every vein Of all your...
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The English Reader, Or Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Children - 1821 - 278 pages
...fasten fhem on him. We hare no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd....: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they ;ire free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud...
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The English Reader, Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Anthologies - 1821 - 280 pages
...and loos'd. 6. Slaves connot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment thfy are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble and bespeaks a nation proud CHAPTER IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. SECTION I. . The morning in summer. 1. THE meek-ey'd morn appears,...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Bibliography - 1822 - 572 pages
...follows: ' " We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? . v "]) And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd....They touch our country, and their shackles fall." ' In Mr. Curran's defence of Hamilton Rowan, accused of the publication of a seditious libel, there...
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