| Jonathan Swift - 1801 - 406 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superiour... | |
| Jonathan Swift, Walter Scott - 1814 - 490 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1815 - 596 pagine
...between breach of trust and fraud. Dr, Swift, in his Voyage to Lilliput, says, " they look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege that care and vigilance with a very common understanding may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the Whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Mitford - 1856 - 448 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning;... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1859 - 152 pagine
...his favour, and proclamation is made of his innocence through the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1864 - 416 pagine
...favour, and proclamation of his innocence is made throughout the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege, that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence against superior cunning;... | |
| Jonathan Swift, John Francis Waller - 1865 - 414 pagine
...favour, and proclamation of his innocence is made throughout the whole city. They look upon fraud as a greater crime than theft, and therefore seldom fail...allege that care and vigilance, with a very common understanding, may preserve a man's goods from thieves ; but honesty has no fence against superior... | |
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