 | United States. Bureau of Education - 1908 - 542 str.
...expected that the youth will grow up virtuous and sober? We hear the saying, "God made the country and man made the town, but the devil made the little country village." There is truth in it. Conditions arc bad in the village, but we could not expect them to be different.... | |
 | 1861 - 810 str.
...among our readers who dwell in large towns, and who are proud to be called " citizens of no mean city." It has been said, " God made the country, man made the town;" yet there are wonderful objects of man's building and adorning. Those who live in ancient cities boast... | |
 | John Giffin Thompson - 1927 - 710 str.
...half-truths to the sup port of other half-truths took a further step in revision: "God made the country and man made the town, but the devil made the little country village." And the recreation expert says, of the final revision, "There is truth in it." ** Thus is poetry reduced... | |
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God made the country, man made the town, but the Devil made the little country village. 