 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 - Page 189by William Cowper - 1808Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1824 - 470 pages
...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...love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour '(I and deli I'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 450 pages
...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...wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teaeh your sons To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour')! and defil'd in most... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...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...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 5 Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | William Cowper - 1824 - 446 pages
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 | John Milton - 1824 - 510 pages
...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...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... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1825 - 248 pages
...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,...The springtime of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defiled in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas ! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
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 | William Fordyce Mavor - Readers (Elementary) - 1825 - 176 pages
...has humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, 7. OMNIPOTENCE. THE spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens,... | |
 | Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - Readers - 1825 - 316 pages
...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, Who, in his snv^rrim wisdom- mat'ta*vwts-l«ll. As God was free to form them at first, 4. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...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...who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 590 By budding ills, that ask a prudent... | |
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