 | Thomas Ewing - 1832 - 428 sivua
...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...all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then why abroad r And they... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1832 - 310 sivua
...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, 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, I had much... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - 1833 - 420 sivua
...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, for all the wealth That sinews,...earned. No ! dear as freedom is, and in my heart's 30 Just estimation prized above all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds,... | |
 | Rev. Samuel Wood - 1833 - 224 sivua
...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, 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... | |
 | 1833 - 370 sivua
...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... | |
 | 1834 - 264 sivua
...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 bought and sold have ever earned." Some idea of the extent to which this iniquitous traffic was carried, may be formed from the number... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 390 sivua
...I sleep, And tremble when 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...all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home. — Then why abroad 1 And they... | |
 | Jacob Abbott - 1835 - 412 sivua
...heart, my dislike and aversion to this constitution of society, is deeper — -far deeper than ever. " No: dear as freedom is, and in my heart's just estimation...all price, I had much rather be myself the slave, and wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.'" CHAPTER VII. HOLIDAYS. Thanksgiving. — A custom has... | |
 | John Pierpont - 1835 - 484 sivua
...sleep, And tremble when 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 prized above all price, I had much rather he myself the slave, And wear the bonds, than fasten them on him. We have no slaves at home — then... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 382 sivua
...our wishes. '•' 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. No ; dear as freedom is, and in my heart's Just estimation priz'd above all price, I 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 earned. 
