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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... "
The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies ... - Page 239
by James Boswell - 1791 - 516 pages
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892).

English poetry - 1916 - 792 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show ext t@ - miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place." It was suggested that kings must...
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Boswell's Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - Readers - 1916 - 370 pages
...represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon...plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a King must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place." At night, Mr. Johnson and I supped...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...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...
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A Little Book of Friendship

Joseph Morris, St. Clair Adams - Friendship - 1925 - 188 pages
...represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." Another quality that won the hearts of his auditors, and still wins the hearts of his readers, is his...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show b . miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place." It was suggested that kings must...
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Harper's Anthology: Prose

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 924 pages
...show it to be evidently a great 1 Other things being equal. 484 evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that ' you may live very happily upon...plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be; and yet they all wish to be in his place." 4 Of a gentleman who was mentioned,...
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Harper's Anthology for College Courses in Composition and Literature: Of ...

Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - Literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...evil, show it to be evidently a great 1 Other things being equal. evil. You never find people laboring 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 wish to be in his...
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Foundations of English Style

Paul Milton Fulcher - English essays - 1927 - 336 pages
...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...you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." He knew what he was talking of, that rugged old master of common sense. Poverty is of course a relative...
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The Hypochondriack: Being the Seventy Essays by the Celebrated ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Hypochondria - 1928 - 390 pages
...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...you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." In the debates on wealth and its uses, Johnson usually insisted that riches were to be desired (see...
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A Treasury of English Aphorisms

Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...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...you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. Ibid., B, I, 441. POVERTY is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it...
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