Where wealth accumulates, and men decay : 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 once destroyed, can never be supplied. A time there was, ere England's... Auntient lere, a selection of aphoristical and preceptive passages from the ... - Page 120 by Ancient learning - 1812 Full view -
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