 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
 | John J. Harrod - Readers - 1832 - 338 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... | |
 | Ebenezer Porter - Elocution - 1833 - 312 pages
...theirs. 25 Else they are all—the meanest things that are, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims As free to live and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons 30 To love it too. The spring time of our years... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Child rearing - 1834 - 442 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... | |
 | William Cowper - 1835 - 620 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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... | |
 | Joseph Emerson Worcester - English language - 1862 - 194 pages
...humanity, forewarned, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For 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. — Coicptr. EPIGRAM. — Dvm vivimus, vivamus. "... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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... | |
 | 1869 - 214 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... | |
 | John Joseph Briggs - Derbyshire (England) - 1869 - 92 pages
...more respect than I have hitherto done." " Right," said Andrew, " right: ' 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.' Nat., I like this house. How sweetly the river winds... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 530 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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