 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 420 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 390 pages
...poisons, which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physick, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1820 - 428 pages
...ardently and vigorously, and that ardour se* cures 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 430 pages
...ardently and vigorously, and that ardour secures us from weariness of ourselves; but no sooner do we. ait 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... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - Readers - 1820 - 226 pages
...endowed with the power of laughter, and perhaps he is the only one who deserves t« be laughed at. 17. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy un-envied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1820 - 422 pages
...poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
 | 1822 - 370 pages
...poisons, which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 378 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... | |
 | Lionel Thomas Berguer - English essays - 1823 - 690 pages
...ardently and vigorously, and that ardour se. cures 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1823 - 582 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. 
