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 | William Cowper - Poetry - 1854 - 460 pages
...God made the country, and man made the town : What wonder, then, that health and virtue, gifts 750 That can alone make sweet the bitter draught That...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatcn'd in the fields and groves ? In chariots and sedans, know no fatigue 755 But that of idleness,... | |
 | John Mitchell - Christian biography - 1855 - 280 pages
...in the running brooks, Sermons in stones, and good in every thing." " God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder, then, that health and...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened iu the fields and groves?" I can speak of my sisters in their childhood as excellent... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 298 pages
...into uninspected forms, And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue,...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and groves ? Possess ye therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | William Cowper - 1855 - 582 pages
...into unrespected forms, And knees and hassocks are well-nigh divorced. God made the country, and man made the town. What wonder then that health and virtue,...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the fields and grovts 1 Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 612 pages
...God made the eountry and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threaten'd in the Melds and groves ? Cowper's Tutk. Seenes must be beautiful whieh daily view'd... | |
 | House of Refuge (Philadelphia, Pa.) - Juvenile delinquency - 1855 - 176 pages
...the consequences of ignorance — -juvenile delinquency. SECTION II. "God made the country, and man made the town, What wonder then that health and virtue, gifts That alone can make sweet the bitter draughts That life holds out to all, should most abound, And least... | |
 | Sarah Josepha Buell Hale - Quotations, English - 1855 - 610 pages
...erieket ehirrups in the hearth, The eraekling fagot flies. GMsmith's Hermit. God mode the eountry and man made the town ; What wonder then, that health and virtue, gifts That ean alone make sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, should most abound And least be... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...of pity, or a mind Cultured and capable of sober thought. e, — Cowper. made the Country, and man made the Town. What wonder, then, that health and...life holds out to all, should most abound And least be threatened in the Fields and Groves. t.— Cowper. for a Lodge in some vast Wilderness, Some boundless... | |
 | Joseph William Jenks - English poetry - 1856 - 574 pages
...— IDLENESS. — SIMPLE DESIRES AND JOYS OF THE COUNTRY FOREBODINGS. God made the country, and man ower that long had The crash of thunder and the warring winds, [stood be threatened in the fields and groves ? Possess ye, therefore, ye who, borne about In chariots and... | |
 | Ohio State Board of Agriculture - Agriculture - 1856 - 788 pages
...many valuable hints for the rearing of plants and flowers, tells us — "Qod made the country and man made the town. What wonder, then, that health and...sweet the bitter draught That life holds out to all, siwulil matt abound And least be threatened in the Jieldt and grovel t " The untutored savage, or the... | |
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