 | Great Britain - 1899 - 974 pages
...see our industries ruined ! So we arrive by economic reasoning at the truth of Goldsmith's words: " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." Wealth, after all, is not the chief end to be attained ; it does not replace men — Englishmen, who decay... | |
 | John Stahl Patterson - Social problems - 1884 - 274 pages
...classes become weakened and finally extinct, leaving only the rich and the poor. (Conflict, Sec. 209.) " 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates and men decay." Wealth, imitation, and the vanities conspire as with the deceit and fascination of sirens to destroy their... | |
 | Pennsylvania. Department of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1902 - 1050 pages
...is very different here. An English poet anticipated what we see in this country to-day when he said: 111 fares the land, to hastening Ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Wealth is accumulating in this country with marvelous rapidity, but men are deserting the farm. You ought... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1905 - 982 pages
...while writing those Commentaries which are still classic in spite of modern criticism, truly wrote : " 111 fares the land to hastening ills a prey Where wealth accumulates and men decay." Wealth is accumulating, but there is no moral, intellectual or physical decadence in the American people.... | |
 | Howard Elliott - Railroads and state - 1913 - 28 pages
...about 21 per cent. In 1870 the wealth per capita was $624 ; in 1904 it was $1,318. Goldsmith says : "111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where...accumulates and men decay." Wealth has accumulated in a phenomenal manner in this country, but we cannot, and must not, permit a decadence of our citizens.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Immigration and Naturalization - 1919 - 368 pages
...demand from any source is the demand of those of narrow reason and perverted patriotism arid w sii the particular benefit of having the soil developed....this case: 111 fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, Wlicre wealth accumulates, and men decay. Wealth has accumulated under the stimulus of oriental... | |
 | P. J. Cain, Mark Harrison - Political Science - 2001 - 384 pages
...we see our industries ruined! So we arrive by economic reasoning at the truth of Goldsmith's words: "111 fares the land. to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men decay." Wealth. after all. is not the chief end to be attained: it does not replace men—Englishmen. who decay through... | |
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Goldsmith, because it is so truthful, especially as applied to this case : 111 fares the land, to hastening Ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. 