 And crowds with crimes the records of mankind : For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws ; For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise.  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. - עמוד 157מאת Samuel Johnson - 1806תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | William Leete Stone - 1836 - 234 דפים
...sympathy ! How lamentable this accursed thirst for gold ! " Wide, wasting pest ! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind. For...Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth, nor safety buys ; And dangers gather as the treasures rise." And at every one of these dens, what a crowd of victims... | |
 | Juvenal - 1837 - 306 דפים
...knowing and the bold Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold; Wide-wasting pest! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind! For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, 25 For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth nor truth nor safety buys;... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 דפים
...knowing and the bold. Fall in the general massacre of gold ; Wide-wasting pest ! that rages unconfined. And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For...buys* The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let history tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land, When statutes glean... | |
 | 1840 - 378 דפים
...knowing and the bold Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold ; Wide-wasting pest ! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For...hireling ruffian draws, For gold the hireling judge distorts-the laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1841 - 538 דפים
...the gen'ral massacre of gold ; , Wide-wa*ting pest! that rage* unconfined, And crowds with crime* ths records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, . , For Rold the hireling judge distort! the laws. Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buje ; The... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 דפים
...knowing and the bold, Fall in the general massacre of gold ; Wide-wasting pest ! that rages unconfined, outh of Chili:— In * twilight gloom, To cheer...beneath the odorous shade Of Chili's boundless forests l heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let history... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 דפים
...knowing and the bold, Fall_in the general massacre of gold ; Wide-wasting pest ! that rages unconfined, e reality of the scenes in 'Don Juan' heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let history... | |
 | Jonathan Dymond - 1845 - 590 דפים
...the middling and lower orders of society."t " The middle rank contains most virtue and abilities."! " Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise."§ " There is no greater calamity than that of leaving children an affluent independence. — The worst... | |
 | Charles Bathurst (schoolmaster.) - 1846 - 80 דפים
...the singular number : the verb in this case referring to each nominative case. Ex. : " Wealth heaped on wealth, nor 'truth nor 'safety 'buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise." Johnson. " 2Pleasure or 2profit there 'is none in swearing, nor anything in men's natural tempers to... | |
 | John Pickering - 1847 - 222 דפים
...peculiar phraseology, we term the pre-eminent, intellectual, indispensable business men of community." " For gold, his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. But scarce observed, the knowing and the bold, Fall in the gen'ral massacre of gold; Wide wasting pest!... | |
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