 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...was new vu generally false, and from that time was no longer solicitous about novelty. — BURNEY. 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 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 upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 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 upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all... | |
 | 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...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income. BOLLS. IN the examination of a Connaught lad, he was asked his age. — "... | |
 | 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 may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and ve*t they all... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | 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 upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all... | |
 | 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...plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place. Mr Dempster having endeavoured... | |
 | 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...plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place. Mr Dempster having endeavoured... | |
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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... 
