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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. "
The Medical and Physical Journal: Containing the Earliest Information on ... - Σελίδα 386
1810
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - 1828 - 256 σελίδες
...themseives once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6 Slaves cannot breaihe in England : if their lungs Receive our air, that...free; They touch our country, and their shackles falL That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate...

Analysis of the Principles of Rhetorical Delivery as Applied in Reading and ...

Ebenezer Porter - 1828 - 418 σελίδες
...Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Cotope'\ Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive...our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our county, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud 71. Irruption of Hyder AIL...

The Christian's sketch book

Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 σελίδες
...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...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing, Spread it then, And let it circulate...

Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 σελίδες
...abroad ? And they themselves once ferried o'er the wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. 6. Slaves cannot breathe in England : if their lungs...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud CHAPTER JV. SECTION 1. ; The. morning in summer. 1. THE meekey'd...

A Treatise on the capability of our Eastern possessions to produce those ...

John Jackson (of Hull.) - 1829 - 52 σελίδες
...had much rather be myself a slave, And wear the bonds that fasten them on him. Slaves cannot breath in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate...

Moral and Sacred Poetry

Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 σελίδες
...they themselves once ferried o'er tk* wave That parts us, are emancipate and loosed. Slaves caunot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are frei; ; They touch oar country, and their shackle; fall. That's noble ! and bespeaks a nation proud...

The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Τόμος 2

William Cowper - 1830 - 328 σελίδες
...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...; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate...

The Negro in American History: Men and Women Eminent in the Evolution of the ...

John Wesley Cromwell - 1914 - 344 σελίδες
...no such law. This decision inspired Cowper's lines: Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lunga Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country and their shackles fall. "The Story of the Slave," see, also, "Slavery and Anti-Slavery," William Goodell, for an elaborate discussion...

From Harlem to Paris: Black American Writers in France, 1840-1980

Michel Fabre - 1991 - 388 σελίδες
...represents an early, important, and for a time the only, cultural link between American Negroes and France. Slaves cannot breathe in England: if their lungs Receive...free, They touch our country, and their shackles fall. Cowper's lines epitomized England's aspiration to be the champion of abolitionism. In quoting them...
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Multicultural Literature and Literacies: Making Space for Difference

Suzanne Miale Miller, Suzanne M. Miller, Barbara McCaskill - 1993 - 318 σελίδες
...Americans' own hypocrisy. "Slaves cannot breathe in England," William Cowper had rejoiced in 1785, "if their lungs / Receive our air, that moment they.../ They touch our country, and their shackles fall" (Task, 1836-1837, Book II, line 40). By act of Parliament and official decree, England had emancipated...
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