 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...  The life of Samuel Johnson - Page 204by James Boswell - 1820Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...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...plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miferable a king muft be; and yet they all wifh to be in his place." x It was fuggefted that kings... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1798 - 464 pages
...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 on a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miferable a king muft be ; and yet they all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...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...— So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place1.' It was suggested that Kings must be unhappy,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 pages
...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...— So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet(they all wish to be in his plnce." It was suggested that Kings must be unhappy, because... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...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...— So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place'.' It was suggested that Kings must be unhappy,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 pages
...Sir, when we consider the bad use that many people make of their property, and how much better use the thief may make of it, it may be defended as a...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily on a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be; and yet they all wish... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pages
...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...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 wish to be in... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...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 same...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily on a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be; and yet they all wish... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 384 pages
...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 - 382 pages
...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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