 | Samuel Richard Bosanquet - 1843 - 452 Seiten
...truth, ye statesmen who survey The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay, "fis 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...statesmen who survey The rich man's jovs increase, the poor's decay, OLIVER GOLDSMITH. Tis yours to judge pۃ$ Xۃ$ even beyond the miser'e wish, abound, And rich men flock from all the world around. Yet count our gains.... | |
 | 1886 - 372 Seiten
...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. The oppononts of reform are tho p.irents of revolution. It is tho continuous increase... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture - 1967 - 902 Seiten
...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." I MUM INCOME ESTIMATES. UNITED STATES. I960, 1965, AND 1966 « '• • « •» Ifcl, 44ilngl. .'... | |
 | Jan Bakker, J. A. Verleun, J. v. d Vriesenaerde - 1987 - 248 Seiten
...confidently assume the character of a public address. The 'friends to truth' are boldly invited 'to judge how wide the limits stand / Between a splendid and a happy land', though they are not left much leeway. Hill refuses to prescribe where his own responses are complex.... | |
 | G. S. Rousseau - 1995 - 420 Seiten
...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 undoubtedly was serious in the foregoing apostrophe, 'Ye friends to truth, &c.' but his... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 Seiten
...increase, the poor's decay, 'Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand Between a splendid and an happy land. Proud swells the tide with loads of freighted...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.... | |
 | Terence Brown - 1996 - 318 Seiten
...swells the tide with loads of freighted ore. 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. This wealth is but a name That leaves our useful products still the same. (265-274).... | |
 | Ewen Green - 1998 - 968 Seiten
...at any rate, will be bright and great enough for them, so they think. Were you to ask one of them ' how wide the limits stand between a splendid and a happy land,' he might reply, ' As wide as the breadth of the Tasman Sea.' The same insular, self-contained temper... | |
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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. 
