 | lady Anne Hamilton - 1840 - 206 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase — the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid, and a happy land." GOLDSMITH. Another barbarous custom is, the injunction imposed upon royal succession, that they shall... | |
 | United States - 1840 - 582 pages
...special privileges and immunities are numerous and stupendous ; but we may yet be aadly admonished ' how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land.' But, fortunately, we are not driven to the alternative of either foregoing for the future such magnificent... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 292 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards, even beyond the miser's wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 398 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a...freighted ore, And shouting folly hails them from he shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around.... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1841 - 548 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decav, 'Tie yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the tide with loada of freighted ore, And shouting folly hails thorn from her shore; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's... | |
 | Law - 1841 - 496 pages
...criminals—but must feel sensibly, in spite of all her refinements of art, and luxury, and knowledge— " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land !" The author proceeds to describe the nature and constitution of the Inns of Court, and the judicial... | |
 | Catherine Read Williams - Acadia - 1841 - 358 pages
...truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." IT was on the evening of the first of September, 1755, that a family, inhabiting an old fashioned,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 446 pages
...truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a...abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet, count our gains. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. Not... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1842 - 416 pages
..., yc. statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase , the poor's decay, T is your's to judge , how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a...e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men tlock from all the world around. Yet count our gains. This wealth is but a name , That leaves our useful... | |
 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - Great Britain - 1843 - 452 pages
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, Tis your's to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." Deserted Village. ing the greater part of its revenue pledged to pay the interest of an overwhelming... | |
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Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. 
