 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...  Poems by William Cowper ... - Page 382by William Cowper - 1814 - 480 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4 Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 504 pages
...convenience, health. Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that...God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...interfere, his rights and claims, Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are 3.11 — the -meanest things that are, As free to live and...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, maf'.e them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach ycur sons To love it too. The... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 582 pages
...interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Klse, they are all—the meanest things that are As free to live, and to enjoy...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | Lindley Murray, John Walker - Children - 1826 - 314 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims, Are paramount, and must extinguish tbeirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are,...to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at first, 4. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring time of our years... | |
 | William Cowper - 1826 - 242 pages
...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, 585 As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...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, 585 As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all— -the meanest things that...sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims, Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too.... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...public path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'*!, Will tread aside and let the reptile live. For they are all, the meanest things that are, As free...God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov' reign wisdom made ihem all. LETTER XXXIV. Superstition and Credulity. MY DEAR CHILDREN, Akin to... | |
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