... the land and see good days. No : lying is so deeply rooted in nature that we may expel it with a fork, and yet it will always come back again: it is like the poor, we must have it always with us. We must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die.... Ravenscliffe - Seite 102von Anne Marsh-Caldwell - 1851Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1836 - 646 Seiten
...employed. There is no complaint in which the truth of the old proverb is so palpable : — " One man may steal a horse, when another may not look over a hedge." On reverting to the remarks of Mr. Judd upon rupia, we must deplore their meagre and hungry character.... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1845 - 338 Seiten
...greatest. Of two evils, choose the least. One half the world knows not how the other half lives. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. One man's meat is another's poison. Praise a fair day at night. Pride goeth before destruction, and... | |
| Anne Marsh- Caldwell - 1851 - 1076 Seiten
...heirapparents do, they say, — from the prince next the throne, to the landholder of half-a-dozen acres. But it's wrong and it's mistaken, — for nothing abates...then, turning abruptly to his wife, asked, " Is the voung man come In r " Yes, just come in." " Tell some one to send him up to s\ to me." "Well, sir,"... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1884 - 354 Seiten
...must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die. All depends upon who it is that is lying. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. The good man who tells no lies wittingly to himself and is never unkindly, may lie and lie and lie... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1913 - 348 Seiten
...must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die. All depends upon who it is that is lying. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. The good man who tells no lies wittingly to himself and is never unkindly, may lie and lie and lie... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1913 - 356 Seiten
...must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die. All depends upon who it is that is lying. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. The good man who tells no lies wittingly to himself and is never unkindly, may lie and lie and lie... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 356 Seiten
...must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die. All depends upon who it is that is lying. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. The good man who tells no lies wittingly to himself and is never unkindly, may lie and lie and lie... | |
| Samuel Butler - 1924 - 354 Seiten
...must all eat a peck of moral dirt before we die. All depends upon who it is that is lying. One man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. The good man who tells no lies wittingly to himself and is never unkindly, may lie and lie and lie... | |
| Walter Bayes, Walter John Bayes - 1927 - 360 Seiten
...beautiful woman which is quite free from any flavour of cloying flattery (A). In this matter one man may steal a horse when another may not look over a hedge. Let us suppose that the Lady Joanna has a red nose. If you are a frankly conventional French painter... | |
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