 | 1752 - 196 pages
...poifons, which may for a time pleafe the palate, but foon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfic, and fecure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - Maxims - 1782 - 482 pages
...by temporary expedients, and every day is loft in contriving for to-morrow, P. of Abiflinia, p. i5i. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfic, and and feoure without a guard. To obtain from the bounty of nature what... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...poifons which may for a time pleafe the palate, but loon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - English literature - 1787 - 422 pages
...poiibns which may for a time pleafe the palate, but ioon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain fro:n the bounty of nature, what... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...poifons which may for a time pleafe the palate, but ibon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...poifons which may for a time pleafe the palate, but foon betray their maJignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Literature - 1801 - 234 pages
...endowed with the power of laughter, and perhaps he is the only one who deferves, to be laughed at. 17. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfic, and fecure without a guard : to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries...the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. When Socrates passed through shops of toys and ornaments, he cried out, How many things are here which... | |
 | English literature - 1803 - 196 pages
...distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries,...the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. When Socrates passed through shops of toys and ornaments, he cried out, 'How many things are here '... | |
 | English essays - 1803 - 222 pages
...ardently and vigorously, and that ardour secures us from weariness of ourselves ; but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions, than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life. One cause which is not always observed of the insufficiency of riches, is, that they very seldom make... | |
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... secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them insufficient to fill up the vacuities of life. 
