 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. A time there was, ere England's...  Lives of American Merchants - الصفحة xxxiiالمحررون: - 1858عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Ralph Griffiths, G. E. Griffiths - 1770 - عدد الصفحات: 604
...fimple and natural (late, with the miferies and vices that have been introduced by poliihed life : ' A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1774 - عدد الصفحات: 70
...has made; But a bold peafantry, th^ir country's pride, When once deftroyed, can never be fupplied. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintained its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life required,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1780 - عدد الصفحات: 204
...has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefbme ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more :... | |
 | John Scott, John Hoole - 1785 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...made ; '» But a bold peafantvy, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd can never be fupply'd. A time there was, e're England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd but gave no more :... | |
 | Jean-Charles Laveaux - 1789 - عدد الصفحات: 732
...fame footing, and to oblige every perfon to take a certain quantity, tvbftber hefmokes or not ! (19) A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man i But times are alter'dj trade's unfeeling train Ufurp the land, and difpofiefs the Twain. Along the... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 206
...has made : But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome {lore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more : His... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1791 - عدد الصفحات: 966
...has made : But a bold pcalantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupplicd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour 1'prcad her wholcfomc ftorc ; Juft gave what life rcquir'd, but gave no more:... | |
 | 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 112
...has made: But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd , can never be fupply'd. A time there was , ere England's griefs began , When every rood of ground maintain'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore ; Juft gave what life requir'd , but gave no more... | |
 | James Roach - 1792 - عدد الصفحات: 284
...is more valuable to the community or nation to which he than huff a dozen idle Lords or Gentlbmen. A time there was, ere England's griefs began. When every rood of ground maintam'd its man ; For him light labour fpread her vvholefome flore, Jurt gave what life requir'd,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1794 - عدد الصفحات: 124
...has made; But a bold peafantry, their country's pride, When once deftroy'd, can never be fupply'd. A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When every rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour fpread her wholefome ftore, Juft gave what life requir'd, but gave no more —... | |
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