| 1820 - 524 pagina’s
...agricultural part of the community — that, ' Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; ' A breath can make them as a breath has made : ' But a bold peasantry, their country 's-pride, ' When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " ' So say I of the higher ranks of... | |
| Ancient learning - 1812 - 322 pagina’s
...Italy, Terra potent armis atque ubere glebes. LORD BACON. * " III fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd." GotDSMlTH_ t Vide Lord Bacon's History of Henry VII. ^ " A time there was, ere England's... | |
| Wakefield, Edward - 1812 - 810 pagina’s
...expressed by an ingenious poet whom Ireland claims as her own : 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes...made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroy'd can never be supply'd. Goldsmith's Deserted Pillage. DUBLIN. — Mr. Luke White,... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1813 - 124 pagina’s
...spoiler';. hand, Par, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'r.ing ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
| John Mason Good - 1813 - 904 pagina’s
...decay: Prince and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breith can make them as a breath has made; b-: a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When, once destroy'd, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. PEASANTRY.*. Peasants; rustics; countjjpeepV Í Locke). PE.VSCOD. PSA'SHELL.J. (pfa.roaand... | |
| 1814 - 310 pagina’s
...wall, And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand> Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, "Where...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; Tor him... | |
| Elegant poems - 1814 - 132 pagina’s
...innocence and health ; And his best riches, ignorance of weaIth. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...breath can make. them, as a breath has made : But a holil peasa. fry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. Bui times are... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 pagina’s
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy" d, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
| Richard Elsam - 1816 - 78 pagina’s
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. " Princes or lords may flourish or may fade, " A breath can make them, as a breath has made; " But a bold peasantry,...pride, " When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." To observe our fellow-creatures employed in carrying on any occupation in which we are interested,... | |
| 1816 - 728 pagina’s
...strength and wealth of a nation — _ " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, " A breath can make them, as a breath has made ; " But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, •' When once destroyed, соя never be suppUci!." For the National Register. BOOK-KEEPING, &c. A few days... | |
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