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" 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... "
The Task: A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: Or, A Review ... - Page 171
by William Cowper - 1787 - 186 pages
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The English Reader: Or, Pieces in Prose and Verse, from the Best Writers ...

Lindley Murray - Readers - 1836 - 264 pages
...abode. • Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things tliaj 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. 4 Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons...
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Translation from Madame de La Mothe-Guion. The task. Tirocinium. John Gilpin ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 404 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, 17 Other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm,...
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The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and ...

William Cowper - 1836 - 416 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, " Other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm,...
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The Bible Christian, Volume 1, Issue 1

Bible - 1837 - 446 pages
...smallest insects, nor suffer our children wantonly to torture them : — 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. We consider it the duty of every man, much more...
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The Poetical Works of William Cowper

William Cowper - English poetry - 1864 - 622 pages
...his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest too near ; But sage observers oft mistake the flame, And give true piety that odious name. first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons To love...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

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...
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Pronouncing Spelling-book

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. "...
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Chambers's Miscellany of Instructive & Entertaining Tracts, Volumes 5-6

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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Smaller specimens of English literature, with notes. Ed. by W. Smith

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...
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The Peacock at Rowsley: Where Andrew, Alexis, and the Naturalist Met; and ...

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...
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