 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show grePM 8M M miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place." It was suggested that kings must... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...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...plentiful fortune. 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... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...Christians ? POVERTY. ALL the arguments which are brought to represent that poverty is no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil ; you never find people...you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income. BOLLS. IN the examination of a Connaught lad, he was asked his age. — " I'm just twenty,... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography - 1846 - 602 pages
...arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great "evil. V ou never find people labouring to convince you that you...plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and ve*t they all wish to be in his place." It was suggested that kings... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show s resolvedH 3 miserable a king must be ; and yet they all , wish to be in his place." It was suggested, that kings... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 374 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no e^ il, shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people...plentiful fortune. 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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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 on a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show ric of Durham, that he had never read the New Testament...are happy are equally happy ; a little miss with a miserable a king must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place." It was suggested, that kings must... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...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...may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So yon hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all wish to be in his place." It... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...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 on a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish... | |
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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... 
