 | William Ayre, Edmund Curll - 1745 - 432 pages
...mine. This, before it was alter'd by Mr. Pope, was not fif Iharp, the two laft Lines only faying : And there's many arrive to be Great, By a Trade not more honeft than mine. And the Song of Mackeath after his being taken, SINCE Laws were made for every Degree,... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1808 - 382 pages
...professions be-rogue one another. The priest calls the lawyer a cheat ; The lawyer be-knaves the divine ; And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine. A lawyer is an honest employment, so is mine. Like me too, he acts in a double capacity, both against... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 458 pages
...professions berogue one another ; The priest calls the lawyer a cheat, The lawyer beknaves the divine, And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine." Well — business goes on swimmingly. If I have fingered a little of the public money, I have at least... | |
 | Eaton Stannard Barrett - 1809 - 170 pages
...professions berogue one another; The priest calls the lawyer a cheat, The lawyer beknaves the divine, And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine." Well — business goes on swimmingly. If I have fingered a little of the public money, I have at least... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - 1824 - 432 pages
...professions be-rogue one another. The priest calls the lawyer a cheat ; The lawyer bc-knaves the divine; And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine. A lawyer is an honest employment, so is mine. Like me too, he acts in a double capacity, both against... | |
 | 1824 - 656 pages
...be -rogue one another. The priest calls the lawyer a cheat ; The lawyer be-knaves the divine ; And the statesman, because, he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine. A lawyer's is an bnneet employment ; so is mine. Like me, too, be acts in a doable capacity : both... | |
 | 1827 - 510 pages
...last lines. ' The priest calls the lawyer a cheat, The lawyer be-knaves the divine, And the tradesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest...Twickenham,' could claim entirely as his own, in the song of Macheath, after his being taken, were — ' Since laws were made for every degree ' To curb vice in... | |
 | Henry Angelo - 1830 - 564 pages
...house stood upon the site of the present noble mansion of the Marquis of Anglesca. BEGGARS' OPERA. 25 another coronation — so share them amongst you."...to be Great, By a Trade not more honest than mine." 26 WILTON. The still more audacious verses, which the " Wasp of Twickenham " could claim entirely as... | |
 | 1831 - 460 pages
...the two last lines :— The Priest calli the lawyer a cheat. The Uwy» r he-knaves the Divine, And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade...manuscript— And there's many arrive to be great By a 'I'm .• not more hone»l than mine. The still more audacious verses, which the " Wasp of Twickenham"... | |
 | Joseph Thomas - 1838 - 380 pages
...professions be-rogue one another. The priest calls the lawyer a cheat; The lawyer be-knaves the divine : And the statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his trade is as honest as mine. A lawyer is an honest employment—so is mine. Like me, too, he acts in a double capacity, both against... | |
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Pope altered the two last lines, "The Priest calls the Lawyer a cheat, The Lawyer be-knaves the Divine, And the Statesman, because he's so great, Thinks his Trade is as honest as mine. 
