 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 239by William Cowper - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1837 - 364 pages
...and this only, that the poet was enabled to say, " Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their tonga Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall." The fact is, the respiration could go on well enough in those parts of her dominions where free labor... | |
 | Frederick Freeman - African Americans - 1838 - 376 pages
...wanted to employ ; and it has been on this account, and this only, that the poet was enabled to say, " Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...They touch our country, and their shackles fall." The fact is, the respiration could go on well enough in those parts of her dominions where free labor... | |
 | Henry Marlen - 1838 - 342 pages
...slave, And wear 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...loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lung* Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall.... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - Slavery - 1838 - 222 pages
...government as the freest of the free — and quoted exultingly the memorable boast of Cowper — " Slaves cannot breathe in England — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ! The touch our country antl their shackles fall!" Now I ask, what is the sentence which Great Britain... | |
 | Thomas Taylor - Antislavery movements - 1839 - 172 pages
...which Cowper thus beautifully writes: — " Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Imbibe our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our...nation proud And jealous of the blessing ; spread on then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire — that, where Briton's power... | |
 | Thomas Taylor (Biographer) - Abolitionists - 1839 - 170 pages
...which Cowper thus beautifully writes: — " Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Imbibe our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our...nation proud And jealous of the blessing ; spread on then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire — that, where Briton's power... | |
 | William Cowper - 1839 - 554 pages
...slave And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad I And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That...Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Reeeive our air, that moment they are free, They touch our country and their shackles fall. That's... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1839 - 674 pages
...pride in claiming as an ancestor, than the man to whom we owe our power of repeating with truth, " Slaves cannot breathe in England ; If their lungs...moment they are free; They touch our country, and their rfiacUles falt." 15 ELOQUENCE. ISOCRATES. THE character of leocrates presente the rare comhination... | |
 | William Leggett - United States - 1840 - 346 pages
...his enfranchised limbs. He would do for this state what the spirit of liberty has done for England. " Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs...; They touch our country and their shackles fall." This is the unhappy condition to which Mr. Shepard desired to reduce this state, in utter disregard... | |
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