 | Samuel Johnson - Authors, English - 1800 - 302 pages
...the national character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1804 - 594 pages
...national- character-is -obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or 'vzlnity; .nor is public happiness to be estimated, by the assemblies...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - English literature - 1806 - 360 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity; norispublick happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...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... | |
 | William Fordyce Mavor - Great Britain - 1809 - 378 pages
...national character is obscured or obli. terated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies...rich nor gay : they whose aggregate constitutes the * These elegant and judicious reflections reach the heart of crery reader of sensibility, and carry... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1810 - 428 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction^ by philosophy or vanity ; nor is publick happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1810 - 424 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is publick happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 388 pages
...the national character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies...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... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1811 - 386 pages
...the national character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies...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... | |
 | 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 the people, are found in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms ; and from them, collectively considered, must the measure of... | |
 | Samuel Johnson (écrivain.) - 1816 - 218 pages
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction, by philosophy or vanity ; nor is publick happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the...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... | |
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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. 
