 | Thomas Bloomer Balch - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 240 pages
...their retainers. Our own deliverance from a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture is an honorable pursuit. Kings have desired... | |
 | sir Archibald Alison (1st bart.) - 1850 - 740 pages
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith,— ' 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 onco destroy'd, can never be supplied.'" The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth... | |
 | A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). ILL fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began When every rood... | |
 | Thomas Lockerby - 1850 - 842 pages
...causeth to err, (Prov. xix. 27.) Ill fares the land to hast'ning ills a prey, . Where wealth accuumlates, and men decay : Princes and lords may flourish, or...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never De supplied. It may be alleged, I am making, or attempting to make, too much of it. Let two authors,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 746 pages
...says Sismondi, " in the well-known lines of Goldsmith, — ' 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 destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 208 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a eountry's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different... | |
 | James Joseph Nolan - Game and game-birds - 1850 - 198 pages
...and sinews of the land would not be crossing the Atlantic. " 111 fares the land, to various ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made, But a bold peasantry, a country's pride, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The brief narrative of the different... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - Irish literature - 1851 - 476 pages
...like these, With sweet succession, taught e'en toil to please ; These round thy bowers their 'jheerful influence shed, These were thy charms — but all...their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 160 pages
...thy smiling plain. No more thy glassy brook reflects the day, But choked with sedges works its weary way ; Along thy glades, a solitary guest, The hollow-sounding...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1851 - 162 pages
...solitary guest, Tie hollow-sounding bittern guards its nest ; Amidst thy desert walks the lapwing flics, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries ; Sunk...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood... | |
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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... 
