 | James Boswell - 1791 - 564 pages
...was, at the fame time, very forry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to reprefcnt poverty as no evil, fhew it to be evidently a great...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune. — So you hear people talking how miferable a king muft be; and yet they... | |
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 554 pages
...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...muft be; and yet they all wifh to be in his place." x It was fuggefted that kings muft be unhappy, becaufe they are deprived of the greateft of all fatisfactions,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 496 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... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1807 - 228 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 must... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1807 - 514 pages
...JE^ to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought 54.' 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 - 1817 - 466 pages
...very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the argumente which are brought to represent poverty as uo 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... | |
 | John Selden - Religion and state - 1818 - 678 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 must... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1820 - 384 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... | |
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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... 
