 | Floyd Windom Hayes - 2000 - 686 sidor
...docks at Liverpool he jumped for joy and thought of the words of the English writer William Cowper: Slaves cannot breathe in England. If their lungs receive our air that moment they were free. They touch our country their shackles fall. (Watkins, 1852, p. 37) Frederick Douglass experienced... | |
 | Catherine Hall, Keith McClelland, Jane Rendall - 2000 - 324 sidor
...slave lands in England; you know what one of our best poets said, that if their lungs but breathed our air, that moment they are free; they touch our country and their shackles fall. But how is it with an Englishman? Why an Englishman, if he goes to the Cape, he can... | |
 | Marcus Wood - 2002 - 467 sidor
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 | Marcus Wood - 2003 - 772 sidor
...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...moment they are 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,... | |
 | Jane Austen - 2003 - 418 sidor
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 | Moses Roper - 2003 - 68 sidor
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 | William Cowper - 2003 - 124 sidor
...wave That parts us, are emancipate and loos'd. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs 40 Receive our air, that moment they are 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,... | |
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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. 
