 | John Matthews Manly - 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 - 792 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 - 792 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... | |
 | Gordon, David, Townsend, Peter - 2000 - 465 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... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 308 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 all... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1791
...very forry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to reprefent poverty as no evil, fliew 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 mull be, and yet they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825
...arguments," he once with keen satire remarked, " 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 happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 512 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 tna* y°u JEXJ've very happily upon a plentiful fortune.- — So you hear people talking how miserable... | |
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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... 
