 | Gordon, David, Townsend, Peter - 2000 - 478 σελίδες
...long ago as the 18th century, the writer and social observer Dr Samuel Johnson commented on the topic: 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... | |
 | Maxine Hancock - 2001 - 168 σελίδες
...reported to have said, "While 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." All the nostalgic reviving in books and television of the "good old days" when money was scarce but... | |
 | Carl Edmund Rollyson - 2005 - 321 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 same...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 - 1820 - 544 σελίδες
...scruple to hang a man for it. When 1 was running about this town a very poor fellow, I was a great arguer for the advantages of poverty ; but I was, at' the...evil. You never find people labouring to convince you tna* y°u JEXJ've very happily upon a plentiful fortune.- — So you hear people talking how miserable... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 476 σελίδες
...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,...people labouring to convince you that you may live happily upon a plentiful fortune. So you hear people talking how miserable a king must be, and yet... | |
 | Tobias Smollett - 1791 - 610 σελίδες
...very forry to be poor. Sir, all the arguments which are brought to reprefent poverty as no evil, fliew 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 miferable a king mull be, and yet they... | |
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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... 
