 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 Cowper - 1881 - 680 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...they are all — the meanest things that are, As free 16 live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1881 - 352 pages
...gentle and genial poet Cowper, has well expressed the extent and the limit of this dominion :• — " The sum is this, — if man's convenience, health,...and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs : Klse they are all, the meanest things that arc, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 428 pages
...he that has humanity, tbrewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For they are ali — the meanest things 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 ali. ARTICLE IV. CONVERSATION.... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 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...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. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | Young people - 1882 - 608 pages
...life, yet with the poet I would say : " ' If man's convenience or safety interfere, his right and claim Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they...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.' " I am, yours... | |
 | William Cowper - 1882 - 628 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...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs, lilse they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 270 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...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. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - Apologetics - 1883 - 348 pages
...happiness of the oyster would also demand the subordination of oysters to a higher order of being. " The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or...rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs."1 The welfare of animals as well as of men was, Cowper'g Task, Book vi. according to this view,... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 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...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. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. 4. The sum is this: if man's convenience, health, Or...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 5. Ye, therefore,... | |
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