 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 - Side 84av Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1761 - 308 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1782 - 482 sider
...&' 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... | |
 | 1787 - 528 sider
...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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, John Hawkins - 1787 - 442 sider
...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,... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 sider
...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... | |
 | 1803 - 196 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 sider
...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 sider
...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... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 sider
...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 sider
...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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