 | Theodore Compton - 1882 - 224 pàgines
...and nations may be great and happy without riches ; but they rarely last long in luxury. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay. The author* of " Egypt of the Pharaohs and of the Kedive " compares the Egyptian with the English rural... | |
 | 1884 - 750 pàgines
...the masses of the people may be ignorant, oppressed, and lacking in the very necessaries of life. " ' III fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." " Rome, in the days of the Caesars, is deemed to have been at the zenith of her power — her power... | |
 | John Thain Davidson - 1884 - 304 pàgines
...men " ? I fear the opposite is too true. Goldsmith hinted as much, when he wrote : — " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." I was struck the other day with those lines which Robert Burns sent to an intimate friend ; showing... | |
 | Lewis Baxter Monroe - 1884 - 328 pàgines
...true, And it mus't follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 6. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When 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... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1885 - 548 pàgines
...they hoth 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 hoth sides. "The great... | |
 | Ellen Barker - 1885 - 304 pàgines
...impossible. ' That we, being rich, are in the habit of paying too dear for our whistles. ' 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... | |
 | 1910 - 640 pàgines
...will our nation prosper. Goldsmith has pertinently expressed the condition when he says : "111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." THE BOOKKEEPING OF HUMANITY» JN Нивтт, PHAB.D., MD. Secretary Indiana State Bonrcl of Health,... | |
 | West Virginia Bar Association - 1886 - 820 pàgines
...men, whether lawyers or not, from the more practical standpoint of the beautiful poem: ''111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." We must recognize the fact that there are some rotten members of society, and therefore rules are necessary... | |
 | Lew Wallace - 1888 - 378 pàgines
...boast of kindness, and call upon his shivering victim to acknowledge a debt of gratitude. " II! fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them and a breath has made, But a bold... | |
 | National Educational Association (U.S.) - 1885 - 552 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... | |
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