...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,...pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied.' " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community — the unpaid magistracy of the...

...Agricultural part of the community—that, 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 unce destroyed, can never be supplied. " So say I of the higher ranks of that same portion of the community—the...

...shall we not rather adopt the sentiment of Goldsmith, and say : III fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, 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...

...greatness ; it is the nursing mother of a wise and virtuous people. "Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay; Princes...bold peasantry — their country's pride, — When once destroyed, can never be supplied." Then look at the picture of the happy peasant himself, —...

...by quoting the following lines towards the beginning of it. 'Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, [yeomanry] their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. 'A time there was, ere...

...with Rousseau on the irreversibility of population decline: HI fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes...But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied. The luxuries of the rich, even when enjoyed in rural settings,...

...prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay; Princes or 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. Loss of knowledge and skills is now a big problem in our universities,...

...1849). Goldsmith (1857:13) had been prescient— unwittingly, no doubt—when, in 1770, he had rhymed: "But a bold peasantry, their country's pride // When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." 48 Perhaps it was this very sense of loss, even anachronism, that made small-scale arable farming appear...

...Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain. 4 1 5O The Deserted Village 111 fares the land, years The lamps are going out all over Europe; we...what's a butterfly? At best. He's but a caterpillar, once destroyed, can never be supplied. 4151 The Deserted Village How happy he who crowns in shades...

...for England, but really for all the Western world as well: 111 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 had made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When...