| American literature - 1787 - 430 pages
...hand; There mall we view the billows raging ftrife, Aid the kind breaft, and waft Ms boat to land." I WOULD not have a Slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while i fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd. No... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...his sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No: dear... | |
| Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...what MAN feeing this, And having human feelings, does not blulh And hang his head, to think himfelf a MAN ? I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To carry me", to fan me while I fleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd. No!... | |
| 1801 - 452 pages
...melancholy subject, does the book open, and thus the paragraph closes in his own peculiar style : — I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No : dear... | |
| Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...exafts his sweat,, . . With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps, when she sees inflifted on a beast. 25 Then what is man ? And what man, seeing...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 3> And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...his sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear... | |
| William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...his swe^t With 'stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast. Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this. And...head, to think himself a man .' I would not have a ilavc to till my ground, To carry roc, to fai; me wl:iie I bleep, And tremble when I wake, for all... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1806 - 480 pages
...else, Like kindred drops, been mingled into one. — Thus man devotes his brother and destroys — Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And...not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ?" CovvpKn. SECTION VI. Subject further examined — Sad conceptions of those, relative to the Divine... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Society of Friends - 1807 - 486 pages
...mingled into one. — Thus man devotes his brother ar^d. destroys — Then what is man ? And what rfoin, seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? " SECTION VI. Subject further examined — Sad conceptions of those, relative to the Divine Being... | |
| Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 596 pages
...his sweat With stripes, that mercy with a bleeding heart Weeps, when she sees inflicted on a beast Then what is man ? And what man, seeing this, And...till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever carn'd. No : dear... | |
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