 his conversations on the subject, amidst his often indulged laxity of talk, there was ever a deep insight into the human heart. " All the arguments," he once, with keen satire, remarked, " which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to...  The Works of Samuel Johnson: The Rambler - Page 117by Samuel Johnson - 1825Full view - About this book
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 372 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1821 - 372 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 478 pages
...the advantages of poverty; but T was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil,...to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that vou may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...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 t evil. You never find people labouring to mvince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful... | |
 | The treasury of wit and anecdote - 1842 - 336 pages
...those called 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pages
...advantages of poverty ; but I was, at the same time, rerr sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments irhich are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great evil. You I never find people labouring to convince you dut you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune.... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...the advantages of poverty; but I was at the same tune very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | Anne Mozley - 1865 - 364 pages
...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...to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." And Sydney Smith... | |
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