 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1800 - 438 pages
...therefore, 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 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 - 1802 - 350 pages
...therefore, 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 By budding ills, that ask a prudent...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... | |
 | Health - 1802 - 302 pages
...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 hand To check them. But alas none sooner shoots ? If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth. Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to him that shews... | |
 | William Cowper - 1806 - 300 pages
...mercy, teach your sons To lore it too. The spring-time of our years ' Is soon dishonoured and defiled in most By budding ills, that ask a prudent hand "--...luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to. him* that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven roove*in'pardonirig... | |
 | William Cowper - English poetry - 1806 - 234 pages
...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 hand To...luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most devilish of them all. Mercy to him, that shows it, is the rule And righteous limitation of its act, By which Heaven moves... | |
 | 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
...his sov'reign 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
...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 sooner shoots, If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, most dev'lish of them all. Mercy to him that shows... | |
 | Mr. Pratt (Samuel Jackson) - Animal welfare - 1810 - 172 pages
...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...hand To check them ! But alas ! none sooner shoots, 123 If unrestrain'd, into luxuriant growth, Than cruelty, more devilish of them all." ' ' Would all... | |
 | 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... | |
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... 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. 
