 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
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1825 - 270 pages
...harms them there, is guilty of a wrong ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who when she fbrm'd, design'd 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... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 268 pages
...harms them there, is guilty of a wrong ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who when she fonn'd, design'd 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 3.11 — the -meanest things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1826 - 286 pages
...of a. wreng: Disturbs th'economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them an abode. 3 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 - English poetry - 1826 - 242 pages
...a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd 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... | |
 | Christopher Anderson - Domestic relations - 1826 - 484 pages
...and with regard to the whole of the inferior creation, let Parents especially bear in mind, that " 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 - 1826 - 242 pages
...a wrong, Disturbs the economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd 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... | |
 | Poetical ladder - 1827 - 94 pages
...are privileg'd. And he that hunts Or harms them there, is guilty of a wrong; Disturbs th' economy of Nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, design'd them...man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. Else they are all— -the meanest things... | |
 | Lindley Murray - Readers - 1827 - 308 pages
...wrong; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who, when she form'd, designed them an abooe. . ; S. 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... | |
 | Anthologies - 1827 - 290 pages
...'d, Will tread aside, and let the reptile live. p. gll.' A necessary act incurs no blame. * * * * » The sum is this. — If man's convenience, health, Or safety, interfere, his rights and claims Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs. The spring-time of our years Is soon dishonour'd... | |
 | Lindley Murray - English literature - 1827 - 276 pages
...of a wrong ; Disturbs th' economy of nature's realm, Who when she form'd, design'd them an abode. 3. 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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