 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
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
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 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 360 pages
...Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Arp paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they arc all — the meanest things that are — As free to...God was free to form them at the first; Who, in His sovereign wisdom, made them all. You, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 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 defiled... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1874 - 416 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. You, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 320 pages
...Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. 580 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 sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 304 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 sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 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 sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1875 - 340 pages
...this. If man's convenience, health, 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 sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | T W M - 1876 - 264 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs ; Else they are all, — the meanest things...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... | |
 | Emma Jane Worboise - Aristocracy (Social class) - 1876 - 568 pages
...should I when I know that mine is the life everlasting ? " CHAPTER XXVI. THE HUNTSMAN'S LEAP. "... they are all — the meanest things that are — As...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." IT... | |
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