 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1800 - 192 páginas
...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 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; For him... | |
 | Thomas Baldwin - 1802 - 68 páginas
...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 destroy *d, can never be supplied.'* It is an intelligent, virtuous, free and extensive population, able by their talents and industry to... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1804 - 114 páginas
...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 destroy 'd, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground mainlain'd its man; For him... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1805 - 264 páginas
...decay ; Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has madp : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy 'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1806 - 248 páginas
...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 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;... | |
 | 1806 - 330 páginas
...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 destroy 'd, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man;... | |
 | Arthur Edmondston - 1809 - 388 páginas
...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 destroy 'd can never be supplied. But even on the supposition that the tenants have been expelled from their farms, it is not at all... | |
 | 1820 - 524 páginas
...them as a breath has made : ' But a bold peasantry, their country 's-pride, ' When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " ' So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the coratnunity — the unpaid magistracy of the country. — 1 do not dread the inroads attempted to be... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1816 - 240 páginas
...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 destroy" d, can never be supply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain' d its man;... | |
 | 1820 - 562 páginas
...make them, as a breath has made : But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, . When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." \/ ' So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the com' munity — the unpaid magistracy of the country. I do not dread ' the inroads attempted to be... | |
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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 destroy 
