 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
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 854 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... | |
 | Edwin Lillie Miller - English language - 1916 - 136 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... | |
 | English periodicals - 1846 - 404 pages
...man's convenience, health, 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." John Pembertnn Bartlett; Kingston Rectory, October... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Samuel Thurber - Abstracting - 1924 - 172 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. — WILLIAM COWPER, The Task CEEB, 1918 OH, well... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1888 - 1026 pages
...his rights aud claiins Are paramount, and raust extinguish theirs. Eise 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. (VI, 581.) Wenn wir nicht zu stolz wären, könnten wir viel nützliche Eigenschaften von den... | |
 | Gavin Hopps, Jane Stabler - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 284 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 God was free to form them at the first. Who, in his sov'reign wisdom, made them all. (VI, 581-7) Most of the ways in which animals serve... | |
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