 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 great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers...  Harrison's British Classicks - Page 4501785Full view - About this book
 | 1752 - 196 pages
...at once difabled and adorned; as lufcious poifons, which may for a time pleafe the palate, but foon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It...poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfic, and fecure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy... | |
 | 1756 - 596 pages
...jilcafe the £1 in One tenle. U received in :mo- nalarp. hnr fonri berrnv their mallenipalatc, but foon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenviud, to be healthful one feafe, U received in ther. If this ambiguity (bmetimes cmMmlles the moll... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 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 the great and wealthyare... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 422 pages
...at once difabled and adorned; as lufcious poiibns which may for a time pleafe the palate, but ioon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It...without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain fro:n the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artifts... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 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 great and wealthy... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...is the greatprivilege 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 great and wealthy are compelled \ i to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies. But it will be found,... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...at once disabled and adorned ; as luscious poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It...poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...is the great privilege of poverty to he happy unenvied, to be healthful without physic, and secure without a guard. To obtain from the bounty of nature...and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists, and the attendance of flatterers and spies. Rambler, vol. 4, p. 229. ' There are natural reasons... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...at once disabled and adorned ; as luscious poisons, which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It...poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without physick, and secure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy... | |
 | 1806 - 420 pages
...at once difabled and adorned ; as lufcious poifons which may for a time pleafe the palate, but foon betray their malignity by languor and by pain. It...great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be heathful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the... | |
| |
