 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 страница
...lived to the present period, would have seen them realized to an extent he could not contemplate. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." THE END. LONDON: Printed bj James Swan, 76, Fleet-street. 198 c*, .' ... | |
 | Philomathic institution - 1825 - 518 страница
...that true and exquisite poet, who exclaimed, — " flow wide the limits stand, Between a splendid ami a happy land ! Proud swells the tide with loads of...ore, And shouting folly hails them from her shore; Yet count our gains, this wealth is but a nuinc. That leaves our useful products still the same." U... | |
 | Lindley Murray - 1825 - 310 страница
...pain ; And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "Vis yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land. Proud swells the... | |
 | Alexander Bailey Richmond - 1825 - 208 страница
...lived to the present period, would have seen them realized to an extent he could not contemplate. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay ; "I'is yours to judge how wide the limits stand, Between a splendid and a happy land." THE END. 1OXDON:... | |
 | 1826 - 300 страница
...pain ; And, e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy, The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy ? Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen, who survey The...shouting Folly hails them from her shore ; Hoards e'en beyond the miser's wish abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | John Minter Morgan - 1826 - 294 страница
...general felicity were two inseparable matters." — Chatelur on Public Happiness, vol. i. p. 41. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Goldsmith's Deserted Village. c2 obliged to submit to the terms of their directors, they began to think... | |
 | 1827 - 368 страница
...accumulates and men decay : And he then asked a question, which has never yet received an answer. " Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey ; The...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Vortex' is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as iu India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
 | George Daniel, John Cumberland - 1827 - 364 страница
...has never yet received an answer. • Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man'» joys increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge,...limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land." Vortex is likely to find quite as many prototypes in London as in India. Extravagance is always selfish... | |
 | 1827 - 532 страница
...economy, are applicable to the wise and beuevoleut statesmen of all times — Tis theirs to judpe, how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land. On the Modern Ornaments of Architecture, Sfc. IN no age since the Augustan era of Rome, perhaps, has... | |
 | 1828 - 962 страница
...contemplate their effects on that important part of the community, the labouring class, without perceiving " How wide the limits stand Between a splendid and a happy land ;" and without wishing that the other course had been pursued, even though we had been somewhat less... | |
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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. 
