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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... "
Studies in Poetry: Embracing Notices of the Lives and Writings of the Best ... - Page 170
by George Barrell Cheever - 1830 - 480 pages
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The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale

Oliver Goldsmith - 1847 - 290 pages
...the spoilers 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...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood...
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The gift book of English poetry

English poetry - 1848 - 468 pages
...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...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him...
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The revelations of an orderly, an attempt to expose abuses in the mofussil ...

Panchkouree Khan (pseud.) - 1849 - 158 pages
...Raj is a paternal and fostering Raj for the poor ryots ! " 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." CHAP. XXVII. LOCAL JTJNTEE. — THE COLLECTOR AND CIVIL SUKGEON....
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Exercises in Rhetorical Reading: With a Series of Introductory Lessons ...

Richard Green Parker - Elocution - 1849 - 466 pages
...spoiler's hand, 40 Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill 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. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood...
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The Calcutta Review, Volume 11

India - 1849 - 634 pages
...Raj is a paternal and ' fostering Raj for the poor ryots !" ' 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, ' Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; '...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, ' When once destroyed, can never be supplied." In several chapters our hero describes, in an historical manner,...
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The Standard elocutionist; and gem-book of British authors, ed. by A. Cunningham

A. Cunningham - 1850 - 200 pages
...But, oh ! a blest relief to those That weary-laden mourn !" FROM THE DESERTED VILLAGE. ©OluSMtti). ILL fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey Where...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...
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Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous, Volume 3

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...country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " The Chrematists always represent an increase of national wealth as necessarily flowing...
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The Ringwood Discourses: Or, Sermons on Various Subjects

Thomas Bloomer Balch - Presbyterian Church - 1850 - 240 pages
...a foreign yoke was effected by the yeomanry of our country. Ill 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. This leads me, in the fifth place, to say, that Agriculture...
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Essays, political, historical and miscellaneous, Volume 3

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...
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Ornamental, Aquatic, and Domestic Fowl, and Game Birds: Their Importation ...

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...
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