 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 139by William Cowper - 1826Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1817 - 248 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or...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,... | |
 | Elizabeth Tomkins - 1817 - 276 pages
...guilty of a wrong; Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who when ihe form'd, design'd them an abode. The sum is this ; if man's convenience, health, Or...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,... | |
 | Daniel Staniford - 1817 - 256 pages
...design d them an abode. The sum it this: if man t convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his riehts and claims Are paramount and must extinguish theirs....things that are, As free to live and to enjoy that life As GoJ was free to form them at the first, Who in his sov reign wisdom, made them all, Ye therefore... | |
 | Joseph Taylor - 1817 - 266 pages
...guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. The sum is this. If man's convenience, health, Or...rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish thenjr Else they are all the meanest things that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God... | |
 | 1817 - 494 pages
...wanton cruelty to animals of every description is practised with impunity — sometimes with applause. 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 bis sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - 1818 - 178 pages
...the public path; But he that has humamty, forewarn'd, 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 hid sov'reign wisdom made them all. « ц'» Library.... | |
 | William Cowper - 1818 - 448 pages
...convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish their's. Else they are all — the meanest things that are, As free to live und to enjoy that life, As God was ft re to form them at the first, Who in his sovereign wisdom made... | |
 | William Cowper - 1819 - 306 pages
...of a wrong, Disturbs th' economy of Nature's realm, .Who, when she form'd, design 'd them an abode. The sum is this If man's convenience, health, Or safety,...that are, As free to live, and to enjoy that life, As God was free to form them at the first, Who in hissov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye, therefore,... | |
 | William Jerdan, William Ring Workman, Frederick Arnold, John Morley, Charles Wycliffe Goodwin - 1819 - 860 pages
...almost a word; and the latitude he allows to man's acknowledged dominion is surely amply sufficient. " The sum is this — if man's convenience, health,...paramount, and must extinguish theirs, Else they are all— thr meanest things that arc As free to live, and to enjoy that life As God was free to form them at... | |
 | Albert Picket - 1819 - 258 pages
...path ; But he that h.is humanity, forewarn'd, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. For 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, THE LORD'S PRAYER.. (Jar ^/atner, ivuo oat in fleaven, naltowed... | |
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