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" 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 206
by William Cowper - 1802
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Murray's English Reader

Lindley Murray, Jeremiah Goodrich - English language - 1829 - 318 pages
...Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. F.lse they are all— the meanest things that are, As tree to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper, Volume 2

William Cowper - 1830 - 328 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 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...
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The Moral Instructor, and Guide to Virtue: Being a Compendium of Moral ...

Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 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 life, As 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...
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An Arrangement of British Plants: According to the Latest ..., Volume 1

William Withering - Botany - 1830 - 494 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 life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who, in His sovereign wisdom, made them all." COWPE».» With some complacency we turn from...
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry, Selected from the Best ...

Lindley Murray - Elocution - 1830 - 244 pages
...rights and claims, Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest tilings that are, 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. 4. Ye, therefore, who love merry, teach your sons...
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Select British Poets: Containing the Works of Goldsmith, Thomson, Gray ...

Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest thinga that are, 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...
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The Works of Cowper and Thomson: Including Many Letters and Poems Never ...

William Cowper - 1832 - 602 pages
...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that arc — my dear first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,^ who love mercy, teach your sons To...
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A selection of moral lessons, natural history, Bible lessons, and poetry

Alexander Spencer - 1831 - 166 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 As Gcd was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who...
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The Task, and Other Poems

William Cowper - 1831 - 192 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 life, » 585 As God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,...
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 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 life, As God was free to form them at the first. "Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Te, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To...
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