 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 178by William Cowper - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 224 pages
...love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon dish mour'd and detil'di in most, As God was fix'e to form them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. Bv budding ills, that ask a prudent hand If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, To check them. But,... | |
 | 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 his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...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...first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon... | |
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...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,...God was free to form them at the first, Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
 | Legacy - Women - 1827 - 332 pages
...path ; But he that has humanity, forewarn'*!, Will tread aside and let the reptile live. For they are all, the meanest things that are, As free to live...God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov' reign wisdom made ihem all. LETTER XXXIV. Superstition and Credulity. MY DEAR CHILDREN, Akin to... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1827 - 262 pages
...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...first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, made them all. 4 Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon... | |
 | 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 spring time of our years Is soon... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...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 - 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
...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,...God was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
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