 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 206by William Cowper - 1802Full view - About this book
 | sir William Smith - 1869 - 382 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... | |
 | Richard Green Parker - 1870 - 444 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. 1 In* ad vert' ent, not turning the * Re tec' to... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1870 - 274 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... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 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... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1871 - 968 pages
...his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest er his slouched hat left and right He first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To... | |
 | William Cowper - 1872 - 290 pages
...claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else 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 sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love morcy, teach your sons To... | |
 | Poetry - 1872 - 710 pages
...paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they arc all — the meanest things that are — As freo = _,O \% first, Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all. Te, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To... | |
 | American poetry - 1872 - 900 pages
...must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things that are — As free to live, and tb their wounded hearts the sudden dread ; But their he first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To... | |
 | James Ridgway - 1873 - 360 pages
...his rights and claims Arp paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they arc 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. You, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons... | |
 | William Cowper - 1874 - 260 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 sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To... | |
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