 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 Universal Magazine - Page 2161805Full view - About this book
 | William Cowper - 1879 - 688 pages
...there, is 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 safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else, they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - Readers and speakers - 1879 - 784 pages
...there is 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 safety interfere, his rights and claims ' Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs; Else they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - American poetry - 1880 - 1124 pages
...is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Л\гпо, when she formed, designed i 02p 02 ;2 rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | George Frederick Wright - 1880 - 348 pages
...happiness of the oyster would also demand the subordination of oysters to a higher order of being. " The sum is this : If man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs." * according to tins view, an element... | |
 | James Macaulay - 1881 - 352 pages
...gentle and genial poet Cowper, has well expressed the extent and the limit of this dominion :• — " The sum is this, — if man's convenience, health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs : Klse they are all, the meanest things... | |
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1882 - 984 pages
...there is 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 safety interfere, his rights and claims « Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | Education - 1883 - 270 pages
...there is 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 safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs* Else they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...there is 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 safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs ; Else they are all — the meanest things... | |
 | John Heywood (ltd.) - 1884 - 232 pages
...there, is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, designed them an abode. 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... | |
 | Loomis Joseph Campbell - Elocution - 1884 - 442 pages
...of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. 4. 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... | |
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