 | Frederick Alexander Manchester, William Frederic Giese - 1926 - 924 страници
...scruple to hang a man for it. 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...which are brought to represent poverty as no evil, show it to be evidently a great 1 Other things being equal. 484 evil. You never find people laboring... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 670 страници
...scruple to hang a man for it 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...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 - 1928 - 390 страници
...the advantage of poverty; but I wai, at the lame time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the argumentl which are brought to represent poverty as no evil...labouring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." In the debates on wealth and its uses, Johnson usually insisted that riches... | |
 | James Boswell - 1928 - 394 страници
...pronouncement, "When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantage of poverty; but I was, at the same time, very sorry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which arc brought to represent poverty as no evil shew it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people... | |
 | Nassau William Senior - 1928 - 410 страници
...very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for 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, show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live... | |
 | Christopher Hollis - 1928 - 240 страници
...who can live daily in the conscious company of God. As Johnson said with enormous common sense : " 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 they may... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - 1928 - 280 страници
...without a desire of conviction to those who advise them to spare their money. 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 labouring to convince you that you may... | |
 | Paul Milton Fulcher - 1927 - 336 страници
...permission of and arrangement with the publishers, Charles Scribner's Sons. 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 labouring to convince you that you may... | |
 | Amy Mandelker, Elizabeth Powers - 1999 - 552 страници
...unadorned life: "When I was running about this town [of London] 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." Johnson's prayers and meditations, grounded in confidence in a divine order, are nevertheless eloquent... | |
 | Norma Clarke - 2001 - 282 страници
...carriage. As he said, '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.' Johnson had known failure and poverty and absolute despair. Though an outstanding scholar, he had been... | |
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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, shew it to be evidently... 
