| Songs, English - 1847 - 906 pages
...MACKAY. To the west ! to the west ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil ; Where children are blessings, and he who hath most Has aid for his fortune and riches to boast ;... | |
| Charles Mackay - Songs, English - 1855 - 258 pages
...i. To the West ! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humhlest may gather the fruits of the soil. Where children are blessings, and he who hath most, Hath... | |
| Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1858 - 292 pages
...To the west ! to the we_st ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil ; Where children are blessings, and he who hath most Has aid for his fortune and riches to boast ;... | |
| Charles Mackay - English literature - 1859 - 410 pages
...! To the West ! to the West ! to the land of the free, Where mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil. Where children are blessings, and he who hath most, Hath aid for his fortune and riches to boast ;... | |
| T. D. L. - Canada - 1863 - 144 pages
...land, when cleared, is rich and generous, and generally very remunerative to the grower. In short — " A man is a man, if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil." As it may be important to some to know under what circumstances and upon what advantageous terms free... | |
| Bible - 1895 - 816 pages
..."To the west, to the west, To the land of the free, Where the mighty Missouri Rolls down to the sea; Where a man is a man, If he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather The fruits of the soil." This invitation was resistless; the wife agreed that I should go, she to stay and work till I could... | |
| American wit and humor - 1864 - 258 pages
...the land of the free, Where the Mighty Missouri rolls down to the sea, Where a man is a man if ho is willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the Where the prairies, like seas whero the billows soil. Where ehildren are blessings, and who hath most,... | |
| Harriet Maria Gordon Smythies - 1865 - 314 pages
...would soon follow you." "And so would I," said Hal Hart. " And I, too," echoed Roger Ruff. " There a man is a man if he's willing to toil — And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil." " Before I go," he added, "I will fulfil my promise of showing you the working of my apparatus." He... | |
| Two or three weddings - 1868 - 248 pages
...her usual dreamy state. In conversation with her aunt, Emma allowed herself to peep into the Paradise where — " A man is a man if he's willing to toil," and a woman is a woman on the same terms, and not a helpless piece of wreck drifting on to any rock where... | |
| A. C. Edmunds (of Lincoln, Neb.) - Nebraska - 1871 - 604 pages
...years in Massachusetts and three years in Cleveland. Ohio, he came to Nebraska, where he believed that A man is a man if he's willing to toil, And the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil. He arrived in August, 1856, and settled in Dixon county, where he farmed to some advantage. On the I3th... | |
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