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" The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is an. "
The Idler - Page 84
by Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787
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The Idler: In Two Volumes. ...

1761 - 308 pages
...are capable of work, obliges them to beg; or juft, which expofes the liberty of one to the paffions of another. THE profperity of a people is proportionate...and ceafes to labour, takes away fomething from the public flock. THE confinement, therefore, of any man in the floth and darknefs of a prifon, is a lofs...
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The Beauties of Johnson: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ..., Volume 1

Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 pages
...&' NO people can be great who have ceafed to be virtuous. Political ftate of Great Britain, p. 56. The profperity of a people is proportionate to the...hands and minds ufefully employed. To the community, feditibn is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and'idlenefs an atrophy. Whatever body, and whatever...
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Harrison's British Classicks: The Idler. Fitz Osbornes Letters. Shenstones ...

1787 - 528 pages
...uftfully employed. To the com, Hlkniry, fedition is a fever, corruption tt я guigreneg and idlenels an atrophy. Whatever body, and whatever fociety, waftes...gradually decay ; and every being that continues to be ied, and ceafes to labour, rakes away fomething from the publick ftock. The confinem«nt, therefore,...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: The Idler

Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 pages
...are capable of work, obliges them to beg ; or juft, which expofes ihe liberty of one to the palTions of another. The profperity of a people is proportionate...the number of hands and minds ufefully employed. To die community, fedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idlenefsan atrophy. Whatever body,...
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The British essayists; with prefaces by A. Chalmers, Volume 33

British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...obliges them to beg; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness is...
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Select British Classics, Volume 9

1803 - 196 pages
...obliges them to beg; or just, which expose* the liberty of one to the passions of another. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: With An Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 7

Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...them to beg; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to tl»e passions of another. Hie prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is & fever, corruption is- a gangrene, and idleness an...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 7

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...obliges them to beg; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 6

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...obliges them to beg; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 5

Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 pages
...them to beg ; or just, which exposes the liberty of one to the passions of another. The prosperity of a people is proportionate to the number of hands and minds usefully employed. To the community, sedition is a fever, corruption is a gangrene, and idleness an...
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