 | Thomas Clarkson - 1830 - 240 pages
...to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me to fan me while 1 sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'iJNo : dear as freedom i». and in my heart's Just estimation prir d above aH price, I had much... | |
 | Bernard Whitman - 1831 - 714 pages
...stripes, that Mercy with a bleeding heart ****** 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." Thus feel and think, also, the New Englanders. How many thousand times have I repeated these... | |
 | William Mathers - 1831 - 214 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 eam'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
 | William Cowper - 1831 - 192 pages
...himself a man? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, 30 And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earu'd. No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, 1 had much... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 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 earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 pages
...blush, And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not ha vo 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 prized above all price, I had much... | |
 | Joseph Emerson - 1832 - 122 pages
...himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me, while I sleep, 30 And tremble, when I wake, for all the wealth, That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd. No ; duar as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation, priz'd above all price, I would... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 pages
...state of degradation in which he 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,...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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 420 pages
...And hang his head, to think himself a man? 25 I 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 earned. No ! dear as freedom is, and in my heart's 30 Just estimation prized above all price, I had... | |
 | 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 have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation prized above all price, 1 had much... | |
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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. 
