 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1825 - 488 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 verj seldom make... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 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... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...attainment of felicity, ardour after them secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them...the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. lt is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Amusements - 1832 - 426 pages
...over my grave ! NATURE make» us poor, only when we want necessaries, observed the late Dr. Johnson, but custom gives the name of Poverty to the want of superfluities. The biography of huntsHen, in general, indépendant of their feats in te chase, might almost be contained... | |
 | Pierce Egan - Sports - 1832 - 432 pages
...over my grave ' NATCRB makes us poor, only when we want necessaries, observed the lale Dr. Juhuson, but custom gives the name of Poverty to the want of superfluities. The biography of huntsmen, in general, independent of their feats in the chase, might almost be contained... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...poisons, which may for a tin* please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...attainment of felicity, ardour after them secures us from weariness of ourselves, but no sooner do we sit down to enjoy our acquisitions than we find them...Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries, but justoin gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. It is the great privilege of poverty... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1837 - 630 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... | |
 | Joel Pinney - 1838 - 256 pages
...his liberty for his delights, and sell himself for what he bought." A wise man would at once reject * "Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries,...but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities."—JOHNSON. the tempting offer, not hesitating to prefer his plain and homely fare,... | |
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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. 
