 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 ... - Page 174edited by - 1804Full view - About this book
 | Henry Home (lord Kames.), Lord Henry Home Kames - 1817 - 532 pages
...always undone, and the knave gets the advantage. Better thus: Gulliver's Travels, Part I. Chap. 6. And 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 hath no law to punish it, is always... | |
 | David Irving - 1821 - 336 pages
...perpermitted." The ambiguity might have been avoided by the insertion of a few additional syllables. " Since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, the consequence is, that where fraud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1823 - 446 pages
...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,...man's goods from thieves, but honesty has no fence agmnst superior cunning; and since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1824 - 494 pages
...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,...perpetual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing * The laws which follow would have been more suitable to the calm and philosophical character of the... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1834 - 354 pages
...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,...cunning ; and since it is necessary that there should be aperperual intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing Upon credit • where fraud is permitted... | |
 | Alexander Reid - 1843 - 122 pages
...ribands brought by her tirewoman, I employed no less 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,... | |
 | James Robert Boyd - 1844 - 372 pages
...tirewoman, with great care and diligence, I employed no less in examining the box which contained them. 5. Since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual intercourse of buymg and selling, and dealing upon credit, where fraud is permitted or connived at, or has no law... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pages
...powers of life gradually declining, he had mi longer courage to undertake this work in its full extent. Since it is necessary that there should be a perpetual...intercourse of buying and selling, and dealing upon credit, the consequence is, that where fruud is permitted or connived at, or hath no law to punish it, the... | |
 | Lord Henry Home Kames - 1847 - 516 pages
...always undone, and the knave get» the advantage. Gulliver's Travel,, Part I. Chap. 6. Better thus: And 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 hath no law to punish it, is always... | |
 | Jonathan Swift - 1850 - 1012 pages
...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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