 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...  The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Rambler - Page 353by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Full view - About this book
 | 1752 - 196 pages
...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 are...found upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happinefs of poverty, do not mean the fame ftate with thofe who deplore its mi feries. Poets who have... | |
 | 1785 - 596 pages
...poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are...found, upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happinefs of poverty, do not mean the fame ftate with thofe who deplore it's miferies. Poets have their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 416 pages
...to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are...found upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happinefs of poverty, do not rnean the fame ftate with thofe who deplore its miferies. Poets have their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 444 pages
...to be happy unenvied, to be healthful without phyfick, and fecure without a guard ; to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great and wealthy are...found upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happinefs of poverty, do not mean the fame ftate with thofe who deplore its miferies. Poets have their... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1792 - 582 pages
...great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artifts and attendants, of flatterers and of fpies. But it will be found, upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happinefs of poverty, do not mean the lame ttate with thole who deplore it'smileries. Potts have their... | |
 | Caleb Bingham - 1801 - 234 pages
...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 are compelled to procure by the help of artifts, and the attendance of flatterers andfpits. 18. Prudence is a duty which we owe ourfllves, and ii we will... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 266 pages
...wealthy are compelled \ i to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies. But it will be found, upon a nearer view, that they who extol the happiness of poverty, do not mean the »ame state with those who deplore its miseries. Poets have their... | |
 | 1803 - 268 pages
...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 and spies. But it will be found upon a nearer view, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...poverty to he 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 the attendance of flatterers and spies. Rambler, vol. 4, p. 229. ' There are natural reasons... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 354 pages
...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 to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies. But it will be found upon a nearer view, that they... | |
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