 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 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 K hear people talking how miserable a king must he; and yet they all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 424 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 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 - 1890 - 568 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show at Johnson's triumphant remark, added, " This is what...don't know, and I do." There was then a cessation of upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, shew e invited me to meet him ; but by some unlucky accident...other he was prevented from coming to us. Mr. Thomas upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they... | |
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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, show it to be evidently... 
