 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pagina’s
...very forry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to reprefent poverty as no evil, fhew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miferable a king muft be; and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pagina’s
...scruple to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pagina’s
...scruple to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pagina’s
...to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very, poor fellow, I was a great argucr for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet(they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pagina’s
...but I was, at the same time, very sorry JE^ to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought 54.' to represent poverty as no evil, shew it to be evidently...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.—So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be; and yet they all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pagina’s
...about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I wax, at the same time very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the argumente which are brought to represent poverty as uo evil, shew it to be evidently a great evil.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pagina’s
...Sir, when we consider the bad nse that many people make of their property, and how much better nse the thief may make of it, it may be defended as a...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King most be; and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pagina’s
...scruple to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the...which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 382 pagina’s
...town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the tame time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments...which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may... | |
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When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew it to be evidently... 
