 | 1894 - 766 pàgines
...it anywhere in history. The course is downwards, through degradation of morals to political death. " III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." Who shall stem the tide of this corruption if not the medical fraternity ? Who else knows the evil... | |
 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 636 pàgines
...increasing their totals is to a large extent not a prosperity, but an adversity." And so Goldsmith: III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay. (3) A very important feature of immigration is the question of its effect on the native stock. What... | |
 | Edwin Holt Hughes - 1909 - 268 pàgines
...real fact that the very immensity of our commercial chances is an unceasing temptation. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." We have known cases where wealth grew and the man shriveled. Multiply such cases and, of course, the... | |
 | Thomas E. Kepner - 1914 - 348 pàgines
...destructive influences of great wealth when controlled absolutely by a few members of society. "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and Men decay!" The influence of the clergy, observed Mr. Gibbon, might be usefully employed to assert the rights of... | |
 | North Carolina. State Board of Health - 1915 - 376 pàgines
...where the two rates are involved human life should have precedence over dollars and cents. "Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay." Election and appointment of board. Terms of office. Vacancies. PUBLIC HEALTH LAWS OF NORTH CAROLINA... | |
 | Charles Hamilton Hughes - 1893 - 796 pàgines
...hasten to decay. The ill health of the two Napoleons lost to France her military prestige. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay. world acknowledged her sway. Then " to be a Roman was greater than a king." They had strength in their... | |
 | Bradley Gilman - 1921 - 948 pàgines
...harbors, or be polished and preserved as elegant and costly toys, to illustrate that — "111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." There was at least one unquestionable impropriety in the Navy Department and that the maintenance of... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - 1928 - 418 pàgines
...not as a detriment and loss to the South s standards, but as a means of preserving them. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, when wealth accumulates and men decay." These ideals were great enough for our Southern heroes to suffer and die for; they should be great... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1931 - 504 pàgines
...have testified, and that the impulses of patriotism would no longer induce men to buy them? Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay. Common sense and practical judgment tell us that what this country needs to-day is an increase in the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means - 1931 - 512 pàgines
...have testified, and that the impulses of patriotism would no longer induce men to buy them? HI fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay. Common sense and practical judgment tell us that what this counitry needs to-day is an increase in... | |
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