...distinguish them from each other. / am, dear Reader, Thy obliged Friend, R. SAUNDERS. The COUNTRY MAN. Happy the Man whose Wish and Care A few paternal Acres bound, Content to breathe his native Air, In his own Ground. Whose Herds with Milk, whose Fields with Bread,...

...n3. 12. Ibid., 1:152. Burke may have been quoting Alexander Pope's "Ode on Solitude" which begins: "Happy the man, whose wish and care / A few paternal acres bound." 13. Prior, Life of Edmund Burke, 6. 14. Corres., 1:101. 15. Ibid., 1:359-62. Editors of Burke's correspondence...

...garden] perhaps mirrors Franklin's own common sense philosophy regarding the cultivation of ones garden: Happy the Man whose wish and care A few paternal Acres bound Content to breathe his native Air In his own Ground Garden Salad '/., head of Boston lettuce ~ 1 cucumber...

...distinguish them from each other. lam, dear Reader, Thy obliged Friend, R. SAUNDERS. The Country Man. Happy the Man whose Wish and Care A few paternal Acres bound, Content to breathe his native Air, In his own Ground. Whose Herds with Milk, whose Fields with Bread,...

...extort) extract forcibly crosses] troubles apostate] religious traitor 52 Ode on Solitude ALEXANDER POPE Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Whose herds with milk, whose fields with bread,...

...whom Jefferson saw as "the chosen people of God." Imitating Horace's epode, Beatus ille, Pope wrote: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound . . . But Pope's idealism is touched by irony. Are men happy when bound to a few paternal acres? Horace,...

...of the farmers. "When I read the "Ode on Solitude" a poem by Alexander Pope, I am reminded of Dad: Happy the man whose wish and care A few paternal acres bound, Content to breathe his native air, In his own ground. Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented...