| William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves can not 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,... | |
| William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...the wave That parts us are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungf 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,... | |
| Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 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,... | |
| Joseph Emerson - Elocution - 1832 - 122 pages
...wave, That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 40 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,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1832 - 310 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 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,... | |
| David Lee Child - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 134 pages
...who do not consult the repositories of law : — ' 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,... | |
| Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...unlovely as thou seem'st* And dreaded as thou art. 754. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 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.... | |
| John Pierpont - Readers - 1835 - 484 pages
...the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. 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,... | |
| William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs 40 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,... | |
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