 | J. Gordon Mowat, John Alexander Cooper, Newton MacTavish - 1907 - 600 pàgines
...their totals is to a large extent not a prosperity, but an adversity." And so Goldsmith : 111 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... | |
 | Michael Schwartz - 1988 - 320 pàgines
...Report.pt. 1, pp. 25, 36-37, 110, 131,207,221,222. The Dynamics of Change in Southern Farm Tenancy Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. When wealth accumulates, and men decay; frinces and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made; But a bold... | |
 | Paul R. Lindholm - 1993 - 132 pàgines
...world over is greed. There is still need of the warning given long ago by Oliver Goldsmith: 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey when wealth accumulates and men decay. Greed usurps devotion to God, destroys peace in human relationships and leads to untold suffering by... | |
 | 1903 - 732 pàgines
...help feeling that Goldsmith's lines about an Irish village apply very well to the Highland glens : "III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, Л breath can wake them as a breath has made; But a bold... | |
 | Texas. Legislature. Senate - 1929 - 560 pàgines
...quoted lines of Goldsmith, "In the Deserted Village" reverberate in the chamber of memory: "111 fares the land, To hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, And men decay." We will not be permitted again soon to look upon a man so charming in personality, so lofty in soul,... | |
 | 1890 - 788 pàgines
...one of the evils of the day. Goldsmith expressed the evil in powerful words when he wrote: 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates and men decay. There are millions of men alive today who can remember when a millionaire in the United States was... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - 1885 - 546 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... | |
 | Charles Russell Hurditch - 1886 - 1238 pàgines
...True men, nature's noblemen, are scarce ; and Goldsmith was right when he said- — "111 fares tte land, to hastening ills a prey, When wealth accumulates, and men decay." A healthy and unselfish public spirit needs to be cultivated. We want a larger number of young men... | |
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... 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey When wealth accumulates and men decay... 
