 | Albert Flandreau Dean - 1925 - Počet stránok 348
...strike a bonanza of this sort with a lucifer match must occasionally tempt some one to strike, for "oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done." That the law has raised the aggregate cost of fire insurance to the American people; that it is the... | |
 | 1925 - Počet stránok 442
...vessel's deck. It is easy to see how this liberty gave opportunities to pilfer and, ultimately, as "the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done, " led to attempts to overpower the small crews and capture the ships. The first maritime trader to... | |
 | William Harbutt Dawson - 1927 - Počet stránok 378
...needless and oppressive burden, Cobden emphasized the actual danger to peace thereby caused, since " oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done." In a long memorandum which he addressed to the Government early in 1862, he said : " But the greatest... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1927 - Počet stránok 290
...becomes a trade, first because old soldiers had no other, and gradually because supply can create demand. The sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done. A community, unwilling to fight in person, may be willing to engage in war to the detriment of its... | |
 | John Francis McCormick - 1928 - Počet stránok 284
...much as it suggests or perhaps even persuades the doing of an action. Thus, when Shakespeare says : "How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done!" he does not mean to remove responsibility from the doer of the ill deeds and throw the blame on circumstances,... | |
 | 1916 - Počet stránok 892
...current events are showing, will have a chance such as they never had in the darkest ages of savagery. 'How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done.' I need hardly point out that this saying applies to nations, and to governments, as well as to individuals.... | |
 | 1886 - Počet stránok 942
...drink does promote sobriety. There is nothing neu in this. Shakespeare long ago observed, — " Huw oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done." ''»Weak human nature, assailed by strong appetite and cozened by opportunity, falls easily, first... | |
 | 1904 - Počet stránok 606
...John in the play excuses himself to the hired murderer of the princes in the Tower on the ground that the ' sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done,' and to have ready to hand the instrumentalities of war unquestionably works as a temptation to use them... | |
 | 1894 - Počet stránok 760
...myself being possibly at the time a little dyspeptic, there was a disturbance of order near my chair. " The sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done, as Shakespeare truly writes ; thus it was that I caught up my cane and gave a hasty cut upon the too-tempting... | |
 | 1920 - Počet stránok 490
...the ex- Lord Chancellor used these wise words of the Court at The Hague : — If it be true that ' the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done,' it is no less true that the existence of such a permanent tribunal, to which any question may be referred,... | |
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