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 ... - Página 7por Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 36 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Edward Howard - 1837 - 216 páginas
...with that fringe of untarnished gold— " Princes and lords may flourish or may fude, A breath can make them as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their nation's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied!" On what he would call the philosophy of... | |
| 1837 - 530 páginas
...following beautiful quotation from the Deserted Village : " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish and may fade, A breath can make them as a breath hath made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,... | |
| Charles Dickens - 1837 - 398 páginas
...with that fringe of untarnished gold — " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their nation's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied !" On what he would call the philosophy... | |
| Douglas Fitzgerald Dowd - 1993 - 598 páginas
...sentimentally — what was lost when efficient agriculture was gained: /// fares the land, to fastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make ttiem, as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When... | |
| Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 páginas
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land, 50 111 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 destroyed, can never be supplied, A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood... | |
| Maine Historical Society - 1995 - 458 páginas
...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...bold peasantry — their country's pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, —... | |
| G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 páginas
...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere... | |
| Donald Winch - 1996 - 452 páginas
...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: 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 destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings,... | |
| Nancy Jack Todd - 1997 - 350 páginas
...prey, 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, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. Loss of knowledge and skills is now a big problem in our universities,... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 páginas
...plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, to hast'ning ills a going out all over Europe; we shall not see them...what's a butterfly? At best. He's but a caterpillar, once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades... | |
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