 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1900 - 928 pages
...for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little cantons or petty republics; rality by the Tories, who, being long accustomed to...court, do not yet consider, that they have at last civilisation. Gentlemen of education,' he observed, ' were pretty much the same in all countries :... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1901 - 526 pages
...fervently to be implored, anc its continuance prayed for. Johnson observed that our liberty was ir no sort of danger : — he would have done much better,...he,) are suffered to languish in helpless misery, tiar country must be ill policed, and wretchedly governed : a decenr provision for the poor is the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...plaisirs presents, et 1'ignorance de la vanite des plaisirs absents, causent Finconstance. THE POOR, (xvm) A DECENT provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - Omar Khayyam - 1904 - 268 pages
...imagine.—Bishop Butter. INCONSTANCY. " THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD ALWAYS LOOKS CLEANEST." THE POOR. A DECENT provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially,... | |
 | William Franklin Webster, Alice Woodworth Cooley - English language - 1904 - 246 pages
...the listening crowds the story of salvation. 7. The way to his land of promise was rough and long. 8. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 9. To relieve distress is godlike. 10. Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 11.... | |
 | William Franklin Watson - 1904 - 244 pages
...the listening crowds the story of salvation. 7. The way to his land of promise was rough and long. 8. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 9. To relieve distress is godlike. 10. Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 11.... | |
 | Literature - 1905 - 730 pages
...before my memory when I read in Edward Fitzgerald's Polonius these observations of Dr. Samuel Johnson : "A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education are pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially,... | |
 | Samuel Cox, Sir William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt - Bible - 1905 - 488 pages
...pomp ; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel." —(The King in King Lear, Act iii. Scene 4.) " A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization " (Dr. Johnson). iv. 28. All this came upon the king Nebuchadnezzar. " Express confessions give definiteness... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1907 - 712 pages
...Sir, (said he) not highly gratified ; yet I do not recollect to have passed many evenings with fzwer objections' "Though of no high extraction himself,...the people (said he,) are suffered to languish in 1 [Dr. Maxwell's memory has deceived him. Glaucus is the person who received this counsel ; and Clarke's... | |
 | James Boswell - 1907 - 628 pages
...than in any other country of the same extent : he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republics. Where a great proportion of the people (said he) are...languish in helpless misery, that country must be ill-policed and wretchedly governed : a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization.... | |
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the poor in England were better provided for than in any other country of the same extent: he did not mean little Cantons, or petty Republicks. Where a great proportion of the people... 
