 Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery, that I cannot but earnestly enjoin you to avoid it. Live on what you have, live if you can on less ; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure; the...  Classical English Letter Writer - Pagina 2671821 - 420 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | James Boswell - 1791 - 608 pagini
...great an evil, and pregnant with fo much temptation, and fo much mifery, that I cannot but earneftly enjoin you to avoid it. Live on what you have, live if you can on lefs; do not borrow •either for vanity or pleafure; the vanity will end in fhame, and the pleafure... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 532 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. " The Beauties of Johnson' are said to have got money to the collector ; if the ' Deformities' have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 562 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. " The Beauties of Johnson' are said to have got money to the collector ; if the ' Deformities' have... | |
 | Frank Elizabeth - 1814 - 400 pagini
...already gone the whole length of your credit. This is to set the quiet of your whole life at hazard. Jf you anticipate your inheritance, you can at last inherit...on what you have; live if you can on less : do not tori row either for vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in regret. Stay,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 536 pagini
...dear friend, is so great on evil, and pregnant with so rauch temptation, and so much misery, that ] cannot but earnestly enjoin you to avoid it. Live on what you have; live if you can on lees; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure; the vanity will end in shame, and the pleasure in... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 378 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. time to time with mutual delight. My disorder has been a cold, which impeded the organs of respiration,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1823 - 440 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation and so much misery,...cannot but earnestly enjoin you to avoid it. Live ou what you have ; live if you can on less ; do not borrow either for vanity or pleasure ; the vanity... | |
 | James Boswell - 1826 - 444 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. " The Beauties of Johnson are said to have got money to the collector; if the Deformities have the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 570 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. " The Beauties of Johnson are said to have got money to the collector; if the Deformities have the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pagini
...in penury, with the empty name of a great estate. Poverty, my dear friend, is so great an evil, and pregnant with so much temptation, and so much misery,...till you have saved money for your journey hither. " The Beauties of Johnson are said to have got money to the collector ; if the Deformities have the... | |
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