Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 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, can never... A Sermon, Delivered Before His Excellency Caleb Strong, Esq., Governor, the ... - الصفحة 7بواسطة Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - عدد الصفحات: 36عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 466
...agricultural part of the community — tbat, " ' 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 that same portion of the... | |
| Richard Polwhele - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 556
...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 unce destroyed, can never be supplied. " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community—the... | |
| Edward Hughes - 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 140
...veneration, as did our illustrious bard : " 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, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The evil of deriving the subsistence of the laboring population... | |
| 1836 - عدد الصفحات: 784
...shall we not rather adopt the sentiment of Goldsmith, and say : III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
| Picaroon - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 958
...understanding, as pass the broken traces of a dream. CHAPTER X. " 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes...pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. AMONG the green delights of Hagglestone's garden, was what my Lord Bacon has quaintly termed... | |
| 1862 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...Posthumus overgenomen en vertaald [Jouwerkoerke , pag. 3]: „ 111 fares the land, to hastening ilLs a prey, „ Where wealth accumulates and men decay....a breath has made; „ But a bold peasantry, their countrys pride, „ When once destroyed can never be supplied. De Romeinen, het grootste volk dat op... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may nourish or may fade : A breath can nally equal. This is my opinion, and was once the opinion of a set of honest men wh once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was. ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
| Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made ;w But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 704
...They forsook the Lord, and served Baalim and Ashteroth.' ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates. and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath CIHI make them, as a breath has made ; Hut a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
| 1837 - عدد الصفحات: 808
...sentiments they breathe Î Are they not aware that Princes and lords may flourish or may fade— breath can make them— as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry — their country's nnde — If once destroy'd, can never be supplied." But to return to my desolate home, which was to... | |
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