 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...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...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...life, ' 585 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 love...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 590 By budding Uls, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas none sooner shoots... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1802 - 350 pages
...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...The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas ! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...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 love it too. The spring time of our years Is soon dishonoured and defiled in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1808 - 338 pages
...sons, To love it too. The springtime of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By hudding ills, that ask a prudent hand, To check them. But alas ! none soqner shoots, If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1810 - 262 pages
...wisdom, made them all. Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons Is soon dishononr'd and defil'd, in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas ! none sooner shoots If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy to him that shows... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1810 - 212 pages
...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 love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonor'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But, alas! none... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 494 pages
...your sons, To love it too. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most 390 By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand, To check them. But alas! none sooner shoots, If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy to him, that shows... | |
 | William Cowper - 1810 - 384 pages
...the first, Who in his sov'reign wisdom made them all. Ye therefore, who love mercy, teach your sous To love it too. The springtime of our years Is soon dishonour'd and defil'd in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand To check them. But alas ! none sooner shoots,... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Animal welfare - 1810 - 172 pages
...than by adding the appeals of the very MUSE of LOVING-KINDNESS and MERCY, the tender COWPER. " Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons To love it too ! The spring time of our years Too soon dishononr'd and defil'd, in most, By budding ills, that ask a prudent... | |
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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. 
