 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
 | David Charles Bell - 1885 - 344 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... | |
 | William A. Campbell - Readers - 1890 - 514 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... | |
 | Bertha Johnston, E. Lyell Earle - Education - 1892 - 626 pages
...plants, and so less need be said about animals in this talk. We all agree with Cowper when he says: " The sum is this: If man's convenience. health, Or safety interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs Else the}' are all — the meanest thing?... | |
 | William Cowper - 1891 - 204 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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1892 - 572 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... | |
 | Flora N. Kightlinger - Dummies (Bookselling) - 1892 - 466 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 Cowper - 1898 - 334 pages
...a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she formed, designed them an abode. 580 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... | |
 | English poetry - 1899 - 816 pages
...there is guilty of a wrong, Disturbs the economy of nature's realm, 580 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... | |
 | Entomological Society of Ontario - Insect pests - 1902 - 856 pages
...there, is guilty ot a wrong, Disturbs th' economy of Nature'b 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... | |
 | Motilal M. Munshi - 1904 - 562 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 that... | |
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