... since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. Exercises Adapted to Hiley's: English Grammar - Page 149by Richard Hiley - 1858 - 185 pagesFull view - About this book
| Jonathan Swift - 1726 - 342 pages
...fence againft fuperior Cunning: and fince it is necefifary that there fhould be a perpetual Intercourfe of Buying and Selling, and dealing upon Credit, where...Fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no Law to punifti it, the honeft Dealer is always undone, and the Knave gets the advantage. I remember when I... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1742 - 386 pages
...Fence againft fuperior Cunning ; and fince it is neceflary that there fhould be a perpetual Intercourfe of Buying and Selling, and Dealing upon Credit, where Fraud is permitted and connived at, or hath no Law to punifh it, the honeft Dealer is always undone, and the Knave gets... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1743 - 430 pages
...neceflary that there mould be a perpetual Intercourfe of buying and felling, and dealing upon Credit j where Fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no Law to punifli it, the honeft Dealer is always undone, and the Knave gets the Advantage. I remember when I... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 478 pages
...friends. And fince it is neceflary that there fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying and felling, and dealing Upon credit, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or bath no law to puni/b it, the honeft dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. Gulliver's... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1762 - 480 pages
...fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying and felling, and dealing upon credit, the honeft dealer, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punifh it, is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. From theft examples, the following 6b«... | |
| Lord Henry Home Kames - 1765 - 578 pages
...friends. And fince it is neceflary that there fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying and felling, and dealing upon credit, -where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath n» tew to pitnijb it, the honeft dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. Travels,... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pages
...understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superiour cunning ; and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...and dealing upon credit ; where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, „ the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 392 pages
...understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superiour cunning; and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...and selling, and dealing upon credit; where fraud is per-. mitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the... | |
| David Irving - 1803 - 266 pages
...extent.'1 Since it is neceffary that there fhould be a perpetual intercourfe of buying aud felling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish itt the honeft dealer is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. Swift's Travels of Gulliver.... | |
| Charles Henry Wilson - 1804 - 250 pages
...understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves ; but honesty has no fence against superior cunning : and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...is always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. CLXXXIII. PERSONS FIT FOR EMPLOYMENT. In choosing persons for all employments we should have more regard... | |
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