 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, And let it circulate...  Poems - Page 47by William Cowper - 1788Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPEB. 5. THAT PHILOSOPHY, WHICH STOPS AT SECONDARY CAUSES, REFROVED. HAPPY the man, who sees a God... | |
 | James Peggs - Ethics - 1832 - 550 pages
...sentiment of the Poet constantly regarded : — Spread it then ; And let it circulate through every vein Of all your Empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel tier mercy too !" DOLE JATTRA, OR SWINGING OF JUGGERNAUT. J BOOK II. BRITISH CONNECTION WITH IDOLATRY.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1833 - 370 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it, then. And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. COWPEB. THE CMFORM ROTATION OF THE EARTH. THE earth which we inhabit is not precisely a spherical body,... | |
 | David Lee Child - Enslaved persons - 1834 - 134 pages
...proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it, then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all our empire, that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.' During most of the period previous to this decision, the London newspapers were disfigured by advertisements... | |
 | John Pierpont - Rare books - 1835 - 496 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. LESSON LXXVII. The same Subject.—MONTGOMERY. THE broken heart, which kindness never heals, The home-sick... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1835 - 158 pages
...bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. 755. Trifles, light as air, Are to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ. Dangerous... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 362 pages
...country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire; that, where Britnin's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too." But after all, perhaps, the peculiarity in... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 pages
...Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence, and peace, and mutual aid, Between the nations in a world that seems To toll the death-bell of its own decease, And by the voice of all its elements To preach the... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 416 pages
...nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein 45 Of all your empire ! that where Britain's power Is...mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence and peace and mutual aid Between the nations, in a world that seems... | |
 | William Cowper - 1836 - 404 pages
...nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein 45 Of all your empire ! that where Britain's power Is...mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need of social intercourse, Benevolence and peace and mutual aid Between the nations, in a world that seems... | |
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