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 History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia - الصفحة 165بواسطة Samuel Johnson, Francis William Blagdon - 1811 - عدد الصفحات: 234عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Minstrel - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 246
...of gold ; Wide-wasting pest ! that rages unconrm'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...the hireling judge distorts the laws; Wealth heap'd onwealth, nor truth nor safety huys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise, Let hist'ry tell where... | |
| William Phillips - 1824 - عدد الصفحات: 44
...as virtue in the breast of a miser." Doctor Johnson, in his " Vanity of Human Wishes," says — 10 " Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise." It were an easy task to multiply extracts of this tendency, even to satiety ; but the writer is anxious... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 504
...gold ; UWide wasting pest! that rages unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the .records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land, ~-v < When statutes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...of gold ; Wide wasting pest ! that rages unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes the madded land, When statutes glean... | |
| Samuel Taylor Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...of gold ; Wide wasting pest ! that rages unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. • Vcr. 1—11. » Vcr. 12—22. Let hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 728
...-v. Wide wasting pest ! that rages unconfin'd, V And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; ., For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...Wealth heap'd on wealth, nor truth nor safety buys, y The dangers gather as the treasures rise. ( • Ver. 1—11. t Ver. 12-«. Let Hist'ry tell where... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ; For gold his sword the hireling ruflian draws, For gold the hireling judge distorts the laws;...safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. • Ver. 1—11. i' Ver. 12—22. Let hist'ry tell where rival kings command, And dubious title shakes... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 750
...! that rages unconfined, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind : * Ver. l-ll. t Ver. U- 22. 1 The dangers gather as the treasures rise, [buys, Let History tell where rival kings command, And dubious... | |
| Lindley Murray - 1825 - عدد الصفحات: 310
...gold ^ Wide-wasting pest '.-that rages unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind ! For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...laws ; Wealth heap'd on wealth nor truth nor safety buy! j The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Let hist'ry tell, where rival kings command, And dubious... | |
| John Timbs - 1829 - عدد الصفحات: 354
...massacre of gold; "Wide-wasting pest that rages unconfin'd, And crowds with crimes the records of mankind; For gold his sword the hireling ruffian draws, For...safety buys, The dangers gather as the treasures rise. Johnson. DCXIX. Whatever we owe, it is our part to find where to payit, and to do it without asking,... | |
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