 | Samuel Johnson - 1818 - 398 ページ
...character is obscured or obliterated by travel or instruction^ by philosophy or vanity ; nor is publiek 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1819 - 476 ページ
...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 in the streets and the villages, in the shops and farms.' — But let the authority and example of Johnson be carried... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy - 1820 - 424 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1822 - 590 ページ
...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... | |
 | Timothy Dwight - 1822 - 542 ページ
...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...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."... | |
 | Edward Allen Talbot - 1824 - 848 ページ
...the national character is obscured or obliterated by travel orinstruction, by vanity or philosophy. Nor is public happiness to be- estimated by the assemblies...of the gay, 'or the banquets of the rich. The great mags of nations is neither rich nor gay: Tliey whose aggregate constitutes THE PEOPLE, are found in... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1825 - 680 ページ
...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 - 1825 - 728 ページ
...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... | |
 | 1828 - 592 ページ
...the manners of a people are not to be found in the schools of learning or the palaces of greatness ; nor is public happiness to be estimated by the assemblies of the gay or the banquets of the rich ;' that ' the great mass of nations are neither rich nor gay ;' that ' they, whose aggregate constitutes... | |
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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. 
