 | Samuel Johnson - 1884 - 348 페이지
...for 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,...decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation. Gentlemen of education," he observed, "were pretty much the same in all countries ; the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 페이지
...causent 1'inCOnstance. Rochefoucauld. "THE OTHER SIDE OP 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,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 페이지
...as too often happens, intercepted his reformati011' Works, vii. n5. Civilisation : its true test : A DECENT provision for the poor is the true test of civilization l. Boswell's Life of Johnson, ii. 130. Classes of mankind : WE are by our occupations, education, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 504 페이지
...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,...decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilisation. Gentlemen of education,' he observed, 'were pretty much the same in all countries ; the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 494 페이지
...for 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,...country must be ill policed and wretchedly governed : n decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. Gentlemen of education,' he observed,... | |
 | 1889 - 966 페이지
...the people," he said, " are suffered to 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." '' The true state of every nation," he maintained at another time, " is the state of common life As... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 724 페이지
...a series of victories over nature. 775 Moses Harvey : Where Are We and Whither Tendin9 t ' Lect. i. A decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. 776 Johnson : Boswell's Life of Johnson. II. 130. (Geor9e Birkbeck flUI, Editor, 1887.) Civilization... | |
 | James Boswell - 1900 - 928 페이지
...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 :... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 페이지
...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 - 1904 - 268 페이지
...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,... | |
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... a decent provision for the poor is the true test of civilization. — Gentlemen of education, he observed, were pretty much the same in all countries ; the condition of the lower orders, the poor especially, was the true mark of national discrimination. 
