 | John Lauris Blake - History - 1827 - 494 pages
...most to be deplored As human nature's broadest, foulest blot, Chains him, and tasks him, and extracts his sweat With stripes, that Mercy, with a bleeding...all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have eve.' earn'd. No— dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast. .. 4. Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. 6. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation pri/'d above all price ; I had much rather... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...his sweat With stripes, that mercy, with a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicted on a beast 4 Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. ,••'.-.'. 6 No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...sweat With stripes, that mercy, vt t1* a bleeding heart, Weeps when she sees inflicUxI on a beast. 4 Then what is man ! And what man seeing this, And having...for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have everearn'd. 5 No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I... | |
 | Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1827 - 630 pages
...fanning him, and keeping off the flies. The picture forcibly brought to my mind a passage in fowper : " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such an ignoble service.... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till ray ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd, 5. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price; I had much rather... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to til) my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And...for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have everearn'd. 5 No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Juit estimation priz'd above all price ; 1... | |
 | James Ewell - Cooking - 1827 - 868 pages
...a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And trembk when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. CowpEa. To mention no other fact, a strong proof of tlie, necessity of the frequent renewal... | |
 | William Brittainham Lacey - Elocution - 1828 - 308 pages
...seeing this. And having human feelings, does not blush And hang his head, to think himself a man 1I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earnVL. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had much... | |
 | English poetry - 1828 - 814 pages
...seeing this, And having human feelings, does not blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? \ would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had 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. 
