Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" The great mass of nations is neither rich nor gay: they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of general prosperity be taken. "
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland - Page 24
by Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 208 pages
Full view - About this book

The Beauties of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Consisting of Maxims and Observations ...

Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...character-is -obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or 'vzlnity; .nor is public happiness to be estimated, by the assemblies of the:...constitutes • the people, are found in the streets and the vil- ' lages; in the shops and farms; .and 'from them, ' collectively considered, must .the measure...
Full view - About this book

The British Tourist's, Or, Traveller's Pocket Companion, Through ..., Volume 2

William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...character is obscured or obli. terated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the * These elegant and judicious reflections reach the heart of crery reader of sensibility, and carry...
Full view - About this book

Inchiquin the Jesuit's Letters, During a Late Residence in the United States ...

Charles Jared Ingersoll - United States - 1810 - 186 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or variety : nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...constitutes the people, are found in the streets and villages, in the shops and farms, and from them collectively considered must the measure of and happiness...
Full view - About this book

The Works of Samuel Johnson, L. L. D.: In Twelve Volumes, Volume 8

Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the gay, or the banquets of the rich. The great mass pf nations is neither rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found in the...
Full view - About this book

Travels Through Canada, and the United States of North America, in ..., Volume 2

John Lambert - Boston (Mass.) - 1814 - 556 pages
...false ideas of the country and its inhabitants. " The great mass of nations," says Dr. Johnson, " are neither rich nor gay. They whose aggregate constitutes...must the measure of general prosperity be taken." From these I have judged of the real character of the Americans ; and 1 found it as difficult to discover...
Full view - About this book

Travels Through Canada, and the United States of North America: In ..., Volume 2

John Lambert - Canada - 1816 - 552 pages
...mass of nations," says Dr. Johnson, " are neither rich nor gay. They wbose aggregate •onstitutes the people, are found in the streets and the villages,...must the measure of general prosperity be taken." From these I have judged of the real character of the Americans ; and I found it as difficult to discover...
Full view - About this book

The North-American Review and Miscellaneous Journal, Volume 9

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American literature - 1819 - 476 pages
...that Johnson has said, 'that the true state of every nation is the state of common life.' and that ' they whose aggregate constitutes the people, are found...streets and the villages, in the shops and farms.' — But let the authority and example of Johnson be carried as far as it may ; it never can extend...
Full view - About this book

The Recreative Magazine, Volume 1

United States - 1822 - 590 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...must the measure of general prosperity be taken." — (Johnson's Tour, p. 45.) But let us now turn our attention to Statesmen, a set of gentlemen up...
Full view - About this book

Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 550 pages
...false ideas of the country, and its inhabitants. " The great mass of nations," says Dr. Johnson, " are neither rich nor gay. They, whose aggregate, constitutes the people, are found in the streets and villages ; in the shops and farms; and from them collectively considered must the measure of general...
Full view - About this book

Travels in New-England and New-York, Volume 4

Timothy Dwight - New England - 1822 - 542 pages
...They, whose aggregate, constitutes the people, are found in the streets and villages ; in the chops and farms; and from them collectively considered must the measure of general prosperity be taken." From these I have judged of the real character of the Americans ; and I found it as difficult to discover...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF