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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. "
The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany - Page 75
1822
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The English Reader

Lindley Murray - 1828 - 262 pages
...hang his head, to think himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fun me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the 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...
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Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through Ireland ...

Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 532 pages
...forcibly brought to my mind a passage in Cowper : " 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 earn'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such an ignoble...
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Letters from Europe: Comprising the Journal of a Tour Through ..., Volume 2

Nathaniel Hazeltine Carter - 1829 - 572 pages
...forcibly brought to my mind a passage in Cowper: " 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 hare eveream'd." But when one reasons philosophically on the subject, there may be no cruelty in such...
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Moral and Sacred Poetry

Thomas Willcocks - 1829 - 334 pages
...blush, 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, for all the wealth That sinews hought and sold have erer earned. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized...
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The London encyclopaedia, or, Universal dictionary of ..., Part 2, Volume 13

Thomas Curtis (of Grove house sch, Islington) - 440 pages
...bore, Unblessed to tread an interdicted shore. P& 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 gold That sinews bought and sold have ever earned. MEACO, a city of Niphon, in Japan, fcrmerly the...
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A Treatise on the capability of our Eastern possessions to produce those ...

John Jackson (of Hull.) - 1829 - 52 pages
...I 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 sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and, in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price, I had...
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The Christian's sketch book

Jabez Burns - 1829 - 378 pages
...I 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 sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and, in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price, I had...
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - 1829 - 318 pages
...wotild not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sfeep, And tremble when 1 wake, for all the 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 abo\e all price; J had...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1830 - 328 pages
...blush, 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 earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - 1830 - 256 pages
...blurb, And hang his head, to think himself a man? 1 would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much...
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