 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 - 1827 - 308 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, As 4*0(1 was free to form them at first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...of nature's realm. Who when she form'd, design'd them an abode. Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are — As free to lire and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 258 pages
...theirs, fclse they are all — the meanest things that ore. As free to Bve and to enjoy that JifeT * As 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 262 pages
...rights and claims' Are paramount', and must extinguish theirs*. Else they are all* — the ineanest things that are', As free to live^ and to enjoy that life', K As God was free to form them at the first', Who', in his sovereign wisdom', made them all*. * 4 Ye',... | |
 | William Cowper - 1828 - 468 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... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 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. 238.... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 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. 1 In* ad vert' ent, not turning the * Re tec' to ry, a room where remind... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish (I Բҿ 7; sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. WILLIAM... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that arc. As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was...sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love morcy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dlshonour'd and defiled... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they arc all — the meanest things that are — As freo = _,O \% sovereign wisdom made them all. Te, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. William... | |
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