 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 834 psl.
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 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 destroyed, can ne ver be supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He... | |
 | Edmund Ruffin - 1838 - 782 psl.
...economists may talk as they like, but poor Goldsmith was right: " 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." Mr. Blacker is determined they shall not be destroyed. He has... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1839 - 242 psl.
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied, A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | 1840 - 378 psl.
...thy desert walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries. Sunk are thy bow'rs in shapeless ruin all, And the long grass o'ertops...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 psl.
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'ditsman... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1922 - 340 psl.
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 310 psl.
...train," shall " usurp this land, and dispossess the swain." " 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 psl.
...all, And the long grass o'ertops the mould'ring wall, And, trembling, shriiikingfromthespoiler'skand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain' d its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 psl.
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : Princes...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 psl.
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 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 destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records... | |
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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... 
