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 | Prince Hoare - 1828 - Страниц: 456
...relating to the subject. Page 138. " he becomes free.'' " We have no slaves at home. Then why abroad ? And they themselves, 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 free... | |
 | Moral and sacred poetry - 1829 - Страниц: 326
...slave, And wear the honds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why ahroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loused. Slaves caanot hreathe in England ; if their longs Reeeive our air, that moment they are frea... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - Страниц: 318
...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 parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are... | |
 | Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - Страниц: 334
...they themselves once ferried o'er tk* wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves caunot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are frei; ; They touch oar country, and their shackle; fall. That's noble ! and bespeaks a nation proud... | |
 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - Страниц: 462
...river Brent in the ordinary ferry . A dditon . We have no slaves at home — Then why abroad ? Acd they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and-loosed. Covyer. FERTE GAUCHER, LA, a small town of France, in Champagne, which was the scene of... | |
 | 1834 - Страниц: 504
...the first beams of whose sun melt his servile bonds ; and whose boast and glory it is to say, that ' Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall ;' — . Owing my earliest impressions to such a land, I can have no fellowship with slavery in any... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - Страниц: 256
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lunys Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Thafs noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - Страниц: 256
...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — Then why abroad 1 And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and toos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they arc free... | |
 | 1830 - Страниц: 824
...in our fertile and beautiful island. Cowper has said, " We Ijave no slaves at home, then why abroad? And they themselves, once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England." Has not the bard here asserted more than can be proved ?... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1830 - Страниц: 240
...bonds, than fasten them on hiir. " My ear is pain'J, / We have no slaves at home....theu why abroad ? And they themselves 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 free... | |
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