 The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them...  The Task, and Other Poems - Page 139by William Cowper - 1831 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Withering - Botany - 1830 - 494 pages
...hand conferred the boon on each, in due degree, and all have an inalienable right to enjoy it. " ' If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere,...that are, ' As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in His sovereign wisdom, made them all." COWPE».»... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...of a wrong; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who when she form'd, design'd them an abode. 8. The sum is this: if man's convenience, health, Or...extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest tilings that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first,... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of^lature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or...extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest thinga that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1830 - 256 pages
...wrong* ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm*, Who', when she form'd', design'd them an abode*. 3 The sum is this* : if man's convenience*, health*, Or safety' interfere', his rights and claims' Are paramounf, and must extinguish theirs*. Else they are all* — the meanest things that arc', Aa free... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claim* Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, whe.n she formed, designed them an abode ls, Bid we t As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...of a wrong, Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Whe, when she form'd, design 'd them an abode. The sum is this : if man's convenience, health, Or...theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that arc. As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. ֕T<T \ {͑ arc all — the meanest things that are — As freo to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode , I know not how thy joy we ever should come near. Better than all measures Of delightful Arc paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are — As... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 360 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, designed them an abode. The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Arp paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they arc all — the meanest things that are — As... | |
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