 | George Canning, Roger Therry - 1836 - 466 pages
...agricultural part of the community — tbat, " ' 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.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the... | |
 | Rinse Posthumus - 1836 - 84 pages
...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' d , can never be supplied. Vut O. GOLDSMITHS gedicht , the deserted village. It Franse... | |
 | 1836 - 784 pages
...Where wealth accumulates, and men decay ! Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath unmakes them, as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. (To be continued.) SYMPATHY, FRIENDSHIP, AND LOVE. WHEN eld... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1836 - 140 pages
...veneration, as did our illustrious bard : " 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, If once destroyed, can never be supplied." The evil of deriving the subsistence of the laboring population... | |
 | Picaroon - 1837 - 958 pages
...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 'd, can never be supplied." GOLDSMITH. AMONG the green delights of Hagglestone's garden,... | |
 | 1837 - 530 pages
...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 be supplied." Mr. Slacker's remedy for the poverty of the " peasantry" is... | |
 | 1837 - 808 pages
...sentiments they breathe Î Are they not aware that Princes and lords may flourish or may fade— breath can make them— as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry — their country's nnde — If once destroy'd, can never be supplied." But to return to my desolate home, which was to... | |
 | Edward Howard - 1837 - 216 pages
...with that fringe of untarnished gold— " Princes and lords may flourish or may fude, A breath can make them as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their nation's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied!" On what he would call the philosophy of... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1837 - 398 pages
...with that fringe of untarnished gold — " Princes and lords may flourish or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made ; But a bold peasantry, their nation's pride, When once destroyed, can never he supplied !" On what he would call the philosophy... | |
 | 1862 - 464 pages
...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 countrys pride, „ When once destroyed can never be supplied. De Romeinen, het grootste volk dat op... | |
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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... 
