 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 Academy of Medicine - Medicine - 1912 - 526 pages
...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs; Else they are all, the meanest things that are, Are 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." And upon this principle he develops his theme except when he is treating... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 858 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish athe in England;' if 585 As God was free to form them at the first, Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...Else they are all — the meanest things that are — As free to live, and to enjoy that life, 585 his cruel hand. IXV Since brass, nor stone, nor eart sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring-time... | |
 | English periodicals - 1846 - 404 pages
...most humane. As Cowper says, — " If man's convenience, health, 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." John Pembertnn Bartlett; Kingston Rectory, October 24th, 1845. Noctule... | |
 | English periodicals - 1851 - 426 pages
...wounding one who was only following his " lawful occupation,1' as I was. " The meanest things that are, Are as free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them ; and he that hurts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong — Disturbs the economy of Nature's... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1925 - 412 pages
...claims Are paramount, nnd must extinguish theirs. Klse 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 sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. WILLIAM... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - Abstracting - 1924 - 172 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. — WILLIAM COWPER, The Task CEEB, 1918 OH, well for him whose will... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1888 - 1026 pages
...health, Or safety interfere, his rights aud claiins Are paramount, and raust extinguish theirs. Eise they are all — the meanest things that are — As...that life, As God was free to form them at the first. (VI, 581.) Wenn wir nicht zu stolz wären, könnten wir viel nützliche Eigenschaften von den Tieren... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 pages
...convenience, health. Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else, they are all - the meanest things that...first. Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. (VI, 581-7) Most of the ways in which animals serve human needs are straightforwardly positive: 'Their... | |
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