 | Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 462 pages
...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... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - 1830 - 240 pages
...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...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They loach our country. and their shackles fall.* That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1830 - 416 pages
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave 35 That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 40 And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate thtough every vein Of all your... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 244 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...cannot breathe in England : if their lungs Receive our ;ur, th;U. moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shack'es fall. That's noble, and... | |
 | 1834 - 504 pages
...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... | |
 | 1830 - 824 pages
...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...emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England." Has not the bard here asserted more than can be proved ? It is true we have not, like the planters... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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 parts us are emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
