 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 pages
...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 earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | 1833 - 370 pages
...would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold...my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. Slaves cannot breathe... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...is retained. w 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. In the following passage the word Clodius has the rising circumflex to express irony ; for Ciceco does... | |
 | 1834 - 264 pages
...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 earned." Some idea of the extent to which this iniquitous traffic was carried, may be formed from the... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1911 - 544 pages
...her lap : — " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever earned ! " You all know it : if you do not, you had better learn and teach it to your children. That... | |
 | A. Wyatt Tilby - 1911 - 304 pages
...slavery : — ' 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. . . . We have no slaves at home. — Why then abroad t . . . Slaves cannot breathe in England... | |
 | 1911 - 784 pages
...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 earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Theodore Parker - 1911 - 544 pages
...her lap : — " I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me when I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews, bought and sold, have ever earned ! " You all know it: if you do not, you had better learn and teach it to your children. That... | |
 | William Stebbing - 1913 - 426 pages
...villain's neck ! ' Wilberforce never rose to his passion of self-sacrifice against negro bondage : I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds than fasten them on him ! s Not permitted thus to sacrifice himself — unable by act or word to redress the cruel, inhuman... | |
 | 1913 - 264 pages
...free. Soufhey. 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. Cowper: Task. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are... | |
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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. 
