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to th* xmtob or th« press. Sir, —Is not “G.W.” wrong in his quotation from “The Deserted Village”? Goldsmith, I think, wrote: XU fares the land, to hastening ills a prey. Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith was considering “men” not “good souls.”—Yours, etc., JAPE March 30, 1936.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21746, 31 March 1936, Page 16
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