The Homes of England http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hemans/records/homes.html, st. 1 (1828).
“The pleasant Land of Counterpane.”
The Land of Counterpane, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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"Wherefore Wildlife Ecology?" [1947]; Published in The River of the Mother of God and Other Essays by Aldo Leopold, Susan L. Flader and J. Baird Callicott (eds.) 1991, p. 337.
1940s
Source: What On Earth Is About To Happen… For Heaven’s Sake? (2013), p. 95
"Little Things" in the Myrtle (1845). This poem came to be published uncredited as a children's rhyme and hymn in many 19th century magazines and books, sometimes becoming variously attributed to Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, Daniel Clement Colesworthy, and Frances S. Osgood, but the earliest publications of it clearly are those of Carney, according to Our Woman Workers: Biographical Sketches of Women Eminent in the Universalist Church for Literary, Philanthropic and Christian Work (1881) by E. R. Hanson, as well as Familiar Quotations 9th edition (1906) edited by John Bartlett, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999) by Elizabeth Knowles and Angela Partington, and The Yale Book of Quotations (2006), ed. Fred R. Shapiro.
“Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.”
Source: On answering the question "Why can't the Kashmir question be resolved?" Yale Daily News, Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt, 1994
This Land Is Your Land (1940; 1944)
“This world is the land of the dying; the next is the land of the living.”
Source: A Dictionary of Thoughts, 1891, p. 103.
“If a man own land, the land owns him.”
Wealth
1860s, The Conduct of Life (1860)