 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 - 1802 - 428 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1805
...alcove, The chamber, ei refectory, may die: A neceffary act incurs no blame. Not fo when, held within their proper bounds, And guiltlefs of offence, they...them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your fons To love it too. The fpring-time of our yeais Is foon difhonoured and defiled in moft By budding... | |
 | William Cowper - 1805
...guilty of a wrong, Difturbs the economy of nature's realm, Who, when ihe formed, defigned them an abod The fum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or...them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your fons To love it too. The fpring-time of our years Is fopn difhonoured and defiled in moft By budding... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805
...his rights and claims Are paramount, and mutt 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'reigu wisdom, made them all *. In N°78, Pope has gratified us by a very humorous... | |
 | Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805
...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'reigu wisdom, made them all *'. In N°78, Pope has gratified us by a very humorous... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1805 - 254 pages
...interfere, his rights and -claims Are paramount, and muft extinguiffr theirs. Elfe they are all, the meanefl things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life, As Cod was free to form them at the firft^ Who, in his fovereign wifdom, made them all. Ye therefore who... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806
...his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish their's. 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 Cowper - 1806
...arrd-mnst extinguish their's.Else they are' aH-,— the meanest things that are, As free to live arid'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... | |
 | 1806
...rights and claims Are piii;iin>>iiiii , ;ind must extinguish theirs. ElsŤ they are all — tbe meanest things that are— As free to live, and to enjoy that life, Ac God was free to fiirin them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all." Co v ri*.'s... | |
 | 1808
...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." COWPBR'S Taii. That hares, and partridges and woodcocks,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1808
...and claims • Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest thing* 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." COWJ>ER*S Tast. That hares, and partridges and woodcocks,... | |
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