 | 1838 - Počet stránok 528
...degradation of mind, than it is to support it : — Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath may make them as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied. — Goldsmith. Let the above principles be admitted, and... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - Počet stránok 242
...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... | |
 | Samuel De Veaux - 1839 - Počet stránok 174
...QUEENSTON, FORT GEORGE, &c. CANADA. '• 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 qnce destroyed, can never be supplied." That portion of Upper Canada, designated in the despatches... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - Počet stránok 360
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 3 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith (the Poet.) - 1839 - Počet stránok 358
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 3 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.) A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | M. W. Beresford, John Kenneth Sinclair St. Joseph, J. K. S. Joseph - 1979 - Počet stránok 320
...ftve Northamptonshire families, 1540-1649. Northants. Rec. Soc. xix (1956). II. DISSOLUTION BY RETREAT 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; . . . But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1981 - Počet stránok 102
...armed services and national security committees. In closing, sir, "111 fares the land, to hasty ills of prey, where wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish and fade; a breath can make them as a breath has made; but a bold leader, its country's pride, when... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1982 - Počet stránok 228
...Deserted Village shows he believed they needed such defence: 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. It was 'Luxury' - what others have termed 'conspicuous waste'... | |
 | Jack London - 1982 - Počet stránok 1238
...wise and was not, this I call a tragedy." XIV Hops and Hoppers 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 is made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
 | Colin Bingham - 1982 - Počet stránok 376
...seen the rise and fall of empires', said Mrs Luce. She was American Ambassador to Italy, 1953-56. Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. OLIVER GOLDSMITH To this couplet from 'The Deserted Village' Hilaire Belloc added the lines:... | |
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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 destroy'd, can never... 
