 | Archibald Smith (M.D.) - 1839 - 640 Seiten
...prosperity of the country mainly depends : " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed can never be supplied." Upon this occasion, we are glad to say, that the new governor's deceitful conduct towards us did not... | |
 | Samuel De Veaux - 1839 - 182 Seiten
...OF QUEENSTON, FORT GEORGE, &c. CANADA. " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade ; A breath can make them, as a breath has made -. But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." That portion of Upper Canada, designated in the despatches of Gen. Brown, as the peninsula lying between... | |
 | 1839 - 630 Seiten
...RHYMES, TAKEN FROM HAMPSHIRE COCNTY, VA. " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDSMTTH'S " DESEBTED Hail! hunting-shirt — hail! mountaineer! Right harbingers of winter cheer... | |
 | 1839 - 622 Seiten
...RHYMES, TAKEN FROM HAMPSHIRE COUNTY, VA. " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry,...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH'S " DESERTED ViM-AM." Hail ! hunting-shirt — hail ! mountaineer ! Right harbingers of winter... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1840 - 504 Seiten
...And the long grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. Ill fares...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... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1840 - 310 Seiten
...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...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning the King again, pleases (forgive... | |
 | Abigail Adams - 1922 - 340 Seiten
...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...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Your address meets with general approbation here ; your petitioning the King again, pleases (forgive... | |
 | 1840 - 378 Seiten
...spoiler's hand, Far, far away thy children leave the land. 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 ev'ry rood... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 Seiten
...And the loug grass o'ertops the mouldering wall ; And, trembling, shrinking from the spoiler's hand, Far, far away, thy children leave the land. Ill fares...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... | |
 | George Calvert Holland - 1841 - 204 Seiten
...Jonathan Downe. Evidence taken on the Factory Commission. " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes...pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied." If you can suggest a parallel to these cruelties in the records of any country, we will apologize for... | |
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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... 
