 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Arrival of the... | |
 | Increase Cooke - American literature - 1819 - 490 pages
...once ferried o'er the waves That part us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breath in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Section 111. REFLECTIONS... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...once feriied o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Ot all your empire ; that, where Hritain's pow'i. Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there... | |
 | Baptists - 1819 - 576 pages
...Constitution in principle or in practice, thanks be to God — • Slaves cannot breathe in England — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...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,... | |
 | 1819 - 596 pages
...on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that — ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...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... | |
 | 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
...on this subject: — it might have occurred to him that— ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: — if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...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... | |
 | 1819 - 594 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Richson - 1820 - 98 pages
...once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPER. THE MISERIES... | |
 | William Cowper - 1820 - 508 pages
...ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Staves caunot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...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... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1821 - 314 pages
...once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are...it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is... | |
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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. 
