 | Congregational churches - 1808 - 604 pages
...following lines of Confer emphatically apply to Massachusetts ; " SLAVES cannot breathe in Massachusetts ; 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,... | |
 | 1808 - 614 pages
...Co-super emphatically apply to Maiiachiuettt r " SLAVES cannot breathe in Matsachusetts ; if their lunge 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,... | |
 | 1809 - 914 pages
...power of repeating with truth — . " Slaves cannot breathe in England. If dieir lungs Receive oui- air, that moment they are free. They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Oh ¡"this is noble!" Solicitous, even to anxiety, as our author shows himself, in developing... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fajl. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home... .Then why abroad J And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...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,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — Then why abroad? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave, That parts us, are emancipate...lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free; 41 They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1811 - 286 pages
...abroad ? And they themfelves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loofeJ. • Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...noble, and befpeaks a nation proud And jealous of the bleffing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's... | |
 | William Cowper - 1811 - 228 pages
...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. ...Then why aboad ? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...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,... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1811 - 428 pages
...the bonds, than fasten them on him, We have no slaves at home—then why abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate...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,... | |
 | Roger Lamb - Burgoyne's Invasion, 1777 - 1811 - 310 pages
...aggregate ground of our Empire at home. Slaves cannot breathe in England, if their lungs Kc'ceiv.o our air? that moment they are free; , 'they touch our country and their shackles fall, That's noble, and bespeaks a natioir proud, Ahd jealous of the blessiug. Spread it then,... | |
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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. 
