 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 σελίδες
...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 - 1860 - 496 σελίδες
...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 yon hear people talking how miserable a king must be ; and yet they all... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 σελίδες
...YCTJ norry to re 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 five very happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king mast be... | |
 | 1864 - 350 σελίδες
...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. " And Sydney Smith spoke in the same vein, declaring it as his experience... | |
 | esq Henry Jenkins - 1864 - 800 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | Friedrich Otto Froembling - 1866 - 438 σελίδες
...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 182 LOED CHESTERFIELD TO HIS SON. miserable a king must be, and yet they all wish to be in his place.... | |
 | Alexander Main - 1874 - 480 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 σελίδες
...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... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 388 σελίδες
...advantages of poverty. 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 2O4 STRIKING A BALANCE. you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful fortune." We suppose that... | |
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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... 
