 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fatli That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein 40 Of all your empire ; that, where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through ev'ry vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1802 - 364 pages
...country, and their fhackles fall. That is noble, and befpeaks a nation proud And jealous of the bleffing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need... | |
 | William Cowper - 1803 - 386 pages
...country, and their fhackles fall. That is noble, and befpeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blefling. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire) that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805 - 366 pages
...country, and their fhackles fall. That is noble, and befpeaks a nation proud And jealous of the bleffing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805 - 376 pages
...country, and their fhackles fall. That is noble, and befpeaks a nation proud And jealous of the bleffing. Spread it then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire ; that where Britain's power Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too. Sure there is need... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That is noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...emancipate and loosed. Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs .Receive our air, that moment they are free; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That is noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... | |
 | Thomas Clarkson - Abolitionists - 1808 - 598 pages
...Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall*. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of...then, And let it circulate through every vein Of all your empire—that where Britain's pow'r Is felt, mankind may feel her mercy too." * Expressions used... | |
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Slaves cannot breathe in England ; if their lungs Receive our air, that moment they are free ; They touch our country, and their shackles fall. That's noble, and bespeaks a nation proud And jealous of the blessing. Spread it then, And let it circulate... 
