 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
 | 1822 - 370 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... | |
 | British essayists - 1823 - 820 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 - 1824 - 422 pages
...adorned; as luscious poisons which may for a time please the palate, but soon betray their ma, lignity by languor and by pain. It is the great privilege...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 702 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... | |
 | John Timbs - 1829 - 354 pages
...poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...only when we want necessaries, but custom gives 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 a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1834 - 630 pages
...at once disabled and adorned ; as luscious poisons, which may for a tin* 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 - 1837 - 630 pages
...once disabled and adorned ; »s 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... | |
 | 1837 - 352 pages
...only when we want necessaries, but justoin gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature, whit the great... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 258 pages
...poor only when we want necessaries, but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature, what the great... | |
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