 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 296 σελίδες
...running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; bat I was at the same time very sorry to be poor. Sir,...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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1890 - 568 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | David Salmon - 1890 - 322 σελίδες
...tragic audience.—Addison. 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. Goldsmith however was often very fortunate in his witty contests even when he entered the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 638 σελίδες
...scruple to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a preat 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 - 1900 - 928 σελίδες
...scruple to hang a man for it. When I was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer ell show it to be evidently a great evil. You never find people labouring to convince you that you may... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Wight Duff - 1900 - 318 σελίδες
...sixpence, and bread for a penny, and gave the waiter a penny." Again he says, " I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was at the same time very sorry to be poor." Personal experience lends force to his poem ' London,' based on the third satire of Juvenal, and bitterly... | |
 | George Gissing - 1903 - 312 σελίδες
...mere pensioning, one-fifth of its population could be induced to live as I do ! "Sir," 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1904 - 1590 σελίδες
...running about this town 1763] GREAT KINGS ALWAYS SOCIAL 295 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... | |
 | David Salmon - 1904 - 112 σελίδες
...tragic audience.—Addison. 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. Goldsmith however was often very fortunate in his witty contests even when he entered... | |
 | Elwood Worcester, Samuel McComb, Isador Henry Coriat - 1908 - 448 σελίδες
...Samuel Johnson's robust common-sense suffices to dissipate the sophistries of those who think otherwise: "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... | |
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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... 
