 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1825 - 404 pages
...sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever earn'd. No — dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just...slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. ORIGIN OF AFRICAN SLAVERY. 1. THE very worst of all the consequences of the discovery of the new continent,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...ever earn'd. ^ 5. No : dear as freedom , and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; 1 had much rather be myself the 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, v And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;. 1 had... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 240 pages
...allowed to share in the produce of his labour. — 84 -I would not have a slave To fan me while I sleep, and tremble when I wake, For all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.' "In England, the poorest labourer is free; and yet we have vassals prompt in obedience, and... | |
 | John Harman Bedford - 1825 - 250 pages
...share in the produce of his labour. — « I would -I would not have a slave To fan me while I sleep, and tremble when I wake, For all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.' "In England, the poorest labourer is free; and yet we have vassals prompt in obedience, and... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the...bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at hame — then why abroad * And they themselves once ferried o'er the ware That parts us, are emancipate... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev ry vein I had much rather be myself the 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...himself .1 man ? 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 earn'd. £> No ; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above, all price ; I... | |
 | Reuben Percy - Anecdotes - 1826 - 386 pages
...words of the poet, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when 1 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever eam'd." IMPROVISATORI. The gift of extemporaneous versifying seems confined to the south of Europe.... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...think himself a Man ? 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 earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz.d above all price, I bad much... | |
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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 earned. 
