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 British Poets: Including Translations ... - Page 150by British poets - 1822Full view - About this book
| William Cowper - 1800 - 438 pages
...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 sov'reign wisdom, made them all. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
| 1802 - 302 pages
...ihey 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...who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 590 By budding Uls, that ask a prudent... | |
| William Cowper - 1802 - 350 pages
...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. Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too. The... | |
| 1805 - 622 pages
...theirs: Else they are all, the meanest things that are As ftee to live, and to enjoy that life, As Gon was free to form .them at the first, Who, in his sovereign wisdom, form' A them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy; teach, your sons To 1m e it too." — Camper. Indulging... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 420 pages
...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 satire on Bossu.... | |
| Nathan Drake - 1805 - 424 pages
...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 satire on Bossu.... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 234 pages
...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...love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon dishonoured and defiled in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas !... | |
| William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...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...all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To lore it too. The spring-time of our years ' Is soon dishonoured and defiled in most By budding ills,... | |
| 1806 - 854 pages
...— 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 Tritt. That hares and partridges and •woodcocks, anil all other animals fit for food,... | |
| 1808 - 614 pages
...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, and all other animals fit for food, may be... | |
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