 | Henry Lonsdale - 1868 - 334 pàgines
...contractors, who supplied to foreign states the gold from the coffers of the Bank of England ? ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay.' What was now the boast of this happy country ? Where was the furniture that adorned the poor man's... | |
 | 1908 - 328 pàgines
...for his words of advice beam forth as gentle rays of admonition to warn us of our danger : "111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, when wealth accumulates and men decay." This was the sentence traced by Goldsmith's pen; a prophesy containing a world of wisdom, a wealth... | |
 | William Stewart Ross - 1871 - 144 pàgines
...world-drama could be enacted by the heroism of Spanish hearts and the terror of Spanish steel. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." Irish Goldsmith wrote this, but the couplet is worthy of the pen of Hebrew Solomon. Russia, Prussia,... | |
 | 1873 - 358 pàgines
...purchasing power of all industries, by their injudicious crusade against customs duties. 124. " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." I sometimes wonder do those somewhat melancholy lines apply to my country. There are many symptoms... | |
 | Josephus Conn Guild - 1878 - 520 pàgines
...the best citizens in time of peace, and the defenders of their country in time of war. « " 111 fare the land to hastening ills a prey, When 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... | |
 | William Dodge Herrick - 1878 - 612 pàgines
...But what- 1 find on old New England's hills. CHAPTER HI. CHARACTER OF THE INHABITANTS. " 111 fares the land, to hastening Ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or muy fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold... | |
 | Pennsylvania. State Board of Agriculture - 1890 - 660 pàgines
...years. Generations ago the poet Goldsmith sounded the alarm in England when he wrote — " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and Nobles may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them as a breath has made, But a bold... | |
 | 1885 - 696 pàgines
...they both reached the same gloomy prediction of an extinct republic in the distant future. " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay," quoted the journalist, after canvassing the merits of the political leaders on both sides. "The great... | |
 | 1918 - 756 pàgines
...interrogatory : "What is there in it for • me ?" the citizens of a state are a base lot. "Ill fares that land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." If the value of a life is to be measured by the pecuniary standard, Faraday and Carlyle, Matthew Arnold... | |
 | 1881 - 692 pàgines
...physique of the population, and its baneful effects upon the teeth, (ioldsmith says: — il 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates, and men decay." This is the goal to which we are tending, but each of us can do a little to check this degradation... | |
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