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" ... and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were any thing; but being brought into the accompt, they are mere cyphers. "
The Addisonian miscellany, a selection from the Spectator, Tatler, and ... - Page 251
by Joseph Addison - 1801
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The Works of Joseph Addison, Volumes 1-2

Joseph Addison - 1842 - 944 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another; et verba valent ut nummi, " words are like money;" and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were any thing; but being brought...
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The Spectator: With a Biographical and Critical Preface, and Explanatory ...

1853 - 524 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another; et verba valent ut nummi, " words are like money :" and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were anything; but being brought...
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The Spectator [by J. Addison and others] with sketches of the ..., Volumes 1-2

Spectator The - 1853 - 596 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another; et verba valent ut nummi, " words are like money;" and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. ' This is something, if such words were any thing; but being...
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Musical Sketches, Abroad, and at Home, Volume 1

John Ella - 1869 - 388 pages
...female sex, on matters of small interest and harmless compliment: et verba valent ut nummi, — words are like money ; and when the current value of them is generally understood, no person is cheated by them. Let not, however, the foreign artist expect in this country...
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Talkers

Robert Shelton Bate - 1878 - 370 pages
...real deceit in compliment, but the matter is well enough so long as we understand one another ; words are like money, and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is -cheated by them. This is something, if such words were anything ; but being...
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The Writer's Handbook, a Guide to the Art of Composition, Embracing a ...

1888 - 576 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another ; it verba valtnt at nvmmi. " words are like money," and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were any thing ; but being...
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Selections from the Spectator of Addison and Steele

A. Meserole - 1896 - 450 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another; et verba valent ut nummi, ' words are like money ; ' and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were anything ; but feeing...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...current Value of them is generally understood, no Man is cheated by them. This is something, if such Words were any thing; but being brought into the Accompt, they are meer Cyphers, However it is still a just Matter of Complaint, that Sincerity and Plainness are out...
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The Spectator, Volume 2

George Gregory Smith - 1897 - 356 pages
...but the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another; £ Verba valent ut Nummi, Words are like Money / and when the current Value of them is generally understood, no Man is cheated by them, This is something, if such Words were any thing; but being brought...
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Composition and Style

Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...the matter is well enough, so long as we understand one another ; et verba valent ut nummi, "words are like money," and when the current value of them is generally understood, no man is cheated by them. This is something, if such words were any thing ; but being...
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