 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | 1840 - 378 pages
...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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 pages
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records of any country, we will apologize for... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | William Henry Harvey - 1841 - 304 pages
...prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." Already has Scotland reason to bewail the truths inculcated by the poet. It is found impossible to... | |
 | Friedrich von Raumer - 1842 - 340 pages
...connection be destroyed, and the talisman of the wonder is broken. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. These are the general and leading points in the arguments usually brought forward by the defenders... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. HI fares the land, to hastening 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 supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1843 - 880 pages
...interest is depressed and this class suffers. " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade. A breath can make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry,...pride,— When once destroyed, can never be supplied." It is an obvious responsibility of the American people to restore the natural and proper order of social... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 372 pages
...conveyed in the beautiful language of the moralizing poet : 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay ; Princes...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. We shall have occasion hereafter, if time permits, to examine the pretensions of monarchical institutions... | |
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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... 
