 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...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 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the vyealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Juft... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...man? I would not have a slave to till ray ground, To carry. me, to fan me while I sleep, And trunble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought...my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;• N CHAP. IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 205 I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Africa, West - 1817 - 126 pages
...And hang his head, to 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,...Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. COWPEIU WCTURE OF AFRICA AT... | |
 | Caroline Herbert - 1817 - 236 pages
...epithet when they spoke of him. CHAP. V. " I would not have a slave to till the ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd" Ax length the long wished for happy day arrived. About four o'clock a postchaise and four stopped at... | |
 | English literature - 1822 - 850 pages
...corresponding effects. FOREIGN SLAVB TRADE *. I would not have a SLAVE to till my ground, To curry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever carn'd. • 'TIS THE CAUSE OF МА1Г. There dwell the most forlorn of humankind, Immur'd, though unaccus'd,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - Elocution - 1817 - 256 pages
...bis head, to think himself a man ? I wou'd not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to f,n me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth f That sinews, bought and sold, have ever eain'ij. No: dear as freedom i,, and in my heart 8 Just estimation,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...And hang his head, to 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,...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... | |
 | Thomas Campbell - Authors, English - 1819 - 466 pages
...And hang his head, to 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,...Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1819 - 448 pages
...would not have a slave to till my ground, ( To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, \ And tremble while I wake, for all the wealth ((That sinews bought and...Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear, the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1819 - 306 pages
...to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To ciirry me, to fan me while 1 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth...have ever earn'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my hearth Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the... | |
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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 earn'd. 
