 They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against...  Swiftiana ... - Página 174editado por - 1804Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Jonathan Swift - 1872 - 444 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...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 gets... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1872 - 174 páginas
...ribands brought by her tirewoman, I employed no lees in examining the box which contained them. 5. Since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, the honest dealer, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or has no law to punish it, is often undone,... | |
 | Library - 1873 - 1084 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege that and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets... | |
 | 1873 - 1086 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege that longing to the mandarin, yet we were obliged to pay...retinue of the mandarin, though it was a very gre and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer is always undone, and the knave gets... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1879 - 466 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted and connived at, or has no law to punish it, the honest dealer ii always undone, and the knave gets... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1882 - 76 páginas
...greater grime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that cure and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty bus no fence against superior cunning ; and, since it is necessary that there should bo a perpetual... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1883 - 466 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...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 gets... | |
 | Jonathan Swift, Sir Walter Scott - 1883 - 468 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...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 gets... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1883 - 128 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no defence against superior cunning ; and, since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse... | |
 | Franz K W. Lange - 1885 - 66 páginas
...greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail to punish it with death ; for they allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding,...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 gets... | |
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