 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 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... | |
 | 1916 - 792 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show ext t@ - upon a plentiful fortune. — • So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show and breadth and height I love thee purely, as they...turn from Praise; I love thee with the passion put t upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show register, or quite obliterate ! XCIX Ah Love ! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp thi l1ve very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1926 - 928 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show b . upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 pagina’s
...Ibid., Idler, No. 26. 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. Ibid., B, I, 441. POVERTY is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 pagina’s
...POVERTY R," said Johnson, "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." He knew what he was talking of, that rugged old master of common sense.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 390 pagina’s
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the argumentl 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." In the debates on wealth and its uses, Johnson usually insisted that riches... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 pagina’s
...enormous common sense : " 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 they may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." Yet to argue from this that, the richer a man... | |
 | Gordon, David, Townsend, Peter - 2000 - 478 pagina’s
...commented on the topic: 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. (quoted 1 in Hayward, 1948, p 15) While there is extensive but inconclusive... | |
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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... 
