 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. - Página 157de Samuel Johnson - 1806Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | 1847 - 526 páginas
...unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. DR. JOHNSON. 1 1. For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws ; For...safety buys ; The dangers gather as the treasures rise. DR. JOHNSON. 12. Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine ? Can we dig peace or wisdom from the... | |
 | 1847 - 540 páginas
...unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind. DR. JOHNSON. 1 1. For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws ; For...safety buys : The dangers gather as the treasures rise. DR. JOHNSON. 12. Can gold calm passion, or make reason shine ? Can we dig peace or wisdom from the... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...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 the hireling judge distorts the laws ; Wealth heaped on wealth nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let history tell... | |
 | English poetry - 1848 - 468 páginas
...knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre of gold ; Wide-wasting pest 1 that rages unconfin'd, 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 duhious title shakes the madded land, When statutes glean... | |
 | Henry Sowerby - 1850 - 392 páginas
...knowing and the bold Fall in the general massacre for Gold. Wide-wasting pest ! that rages nnconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind. For...Gold the hireling judge distorts the laws. Wealth heaped on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers thicken as the treasures rise." In order to... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1852 - 458 páginas
...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 madden'd land, When statutes... | |
 | Susan Ferrier - 1852 - 446 páginas
...CHAPTER XXI. Fate wings with ev'ry wish the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art : "Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Thf 1'anity qf Human ll'Ma ALTHOUGH every body declared they had expected a most extraordinary settlement... | |
 | Joshua A. Carnes - 1852 - 498 páginas
...than the ebon complexions of the Africans themselves. What will not some men do for sordid pelf! " For gold, his sword the hireling ruffian draws ; For gold, the hireling judge distorts the laws." Man will brave the dangers of the ice-girt regions of the northern latitudes, and defy the powers of... | |
 | Eliot Warburton - 1852 - 318 páginas
...say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with fears the crowded maze of fate. Wealth heaped on wealth nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. JOHNSON. BEAUTIFUL is the influence that pure and cultivated women exercise on those around them, —... | |
 | Bartholomew Elliott G. Warburton - 1852 - 954 páginas
...say how hope and fear, desire and hate, O'erspread with fears the crowded maze of fate. Wealth heaped on wealth nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. JOHNSON. BEAUTIFUL is the influence that pure and cultivated women exercise on those around them, —... | |
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