 | Joshua Marsden - Poets - 1812 - 192 pages
...rage a jhorter way To crowns of glory and immortal day. WEST-INDIA LOGIC, OR NEGROES HATE NO SOULS' I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...the wealth That sinews bought and sold have. ever earned. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I had much... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1812 - 722 pages
...He would exclaim with the Poet, in the words of the motto of the pamphlet which he had mentioned, " I would not have a slave to till my ground, " To carry me, to fan me when 1 sleep, " And trembl." when I wakf, for a'l the wea'th " That sinews bought anil sold have cvar... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1813 - 276 pages
...blush And ha'ig his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To earry me,, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'dNo : dear as freedom is, and in ny heart's . SECTION III. The Rose. T wiT v.ad bee" Wash'd' latel-v... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 588 pages
...triumfilt, crown him with laurels, and let the milliou li.vten while he sings — • ' I would net have a slave to till my ground, * " To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, ' And tremble when I wafce, for all the wealth 1 That sinews bought and sold liuve ever earn'ii. ' No: dear as freedom is,.... | |
 | David Benedict - Baptists - 1813 - 592 pages
...true, vote him a triumfih, crown him with laurels, and let the million listen while he sings — " I would not have a slave to till my ground, " To carry ire, to fan me while I sleep, " And tremble, when I wake, for all the wealth " That sinews bought and... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1814 - 496 pages
...not blnsh, And ), in.; his head, to think himself a man ? I wonld not have a slave to till my gronnd, To carry me, to fan me while i sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bonght and sold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Jnst estimation pria'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1815 - 262 pages
...this, And havifigTiuH/airibelmgu, Joe - ^ UUt blufli — And hang his head, !to think himfelf a man ? I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry...while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the vyealth That finews bought and fold have ever earn'd. No : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Juft... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1815 - 276 pages
...blush • And hang his head, to think himself a man ? I would not have a slave to till my grounjl, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble,...all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'dt IV « : dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ; I had... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English language - 1816 - 328 pages
...man? I would not have a slave to till ray ground, To carry. me, to fan me while I sleep, And trunble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought...my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price ;• N CHAP. IV. DESCRIPTIVE PIECES. 205 I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds,... | |
 | Caroline Herbert - 1817 - 236 pages
...failed giving him that epithet when they spoke of him. CHAP. V. " I would not have a slave to till the ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And...wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd" Ax length the long wished for happy day arrived. About four o'clock a postchaise and four stopped at... | |
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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. 
