 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
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1856 - 428 pages
...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,...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... | |
 | 1856 - 374 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... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, William Alexander Clouston - 1875 - 346 pages
...they support themselves by temporary expedients, and every day is lost in contriving for the morrow. 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... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1880 - 686 pages
...privilege of poverty to be happy and unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great...and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. Few are the real wants and necessities of mankind. Some men with thousands a year suffer more... | |
 | John Tillotson - 1880 - 392 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... | |
 | Smith C. Ferguson, Emory Adams Allen - 1884 - 648 pages
...privilege of poverty to be happy and unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great...and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. Few are the real wants and necessities of mankind. Some men with thousands a year suffer more... | |
 | James Hay - 1884 - 376 pages
...privilege of poverty to be f Poverty unenvied, to be healthy without physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great...and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art. — Rambler, No. 202. The Protection I need not fear thieves ; I have nothing, of Poverty j .... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 pages
...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...and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of artists and attendants, of flatterers and spies.1 But it will be found upon a nearer view, that they... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1889 - 286 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... | |
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