 I'm thinking, Pierre, how that damned starving quality Called Honesty got footing in the world. Pierr. Why, powerful Villainy first set it up, For its own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten...  Memoirs of Richard Cumberland - Page 149by Richard Cumberland - 1807 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
 | James Biggs - 1809 - 328 pages
...London, " there is a market for cunning" and I hope also " an emporium for honesty," but here as there " Honest men Are the soft easy cushions, on which knaves Repose and fatten." LETTER X. Departure from Aruba —Events till the arrival on the coast—Singular order—A great dispute.—Resignatio... | |
 | James Biggs - 1811 - 334 pages
...London, " there is a market for cunning" and I hope also " an emporium for honesty," but here as there " Honest men Are the soft easy cushions, on which knaves Repose and fatten." LETTER X. Departure from Aruba.~- Events till the arrival 0n the coast. — Singular order. — A great... | |
 | 1811 - 718 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. Why, powerful villany first set it up, For its own ease and safety. ten words more, I were lost. — One knocks, go in. [Ejfil BEAUMEL. That Were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other ; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats rewards:... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1812 - 294 pages
...hold^of a ship, and crawl into notice, nay, even into king's palaces, as the frogs did into Pharaoh's. But there are more than these — Vain men will have...and powerful men their dependants. A great man in officeis like a great whale in the ocean ; there will be a sword-fish and a thresher, a Junius and... | |
 | DR. JOHNSON - 1812 - 480 pages
...footing in the world. Pierre. Why, powerful villany first set it up, For its own ease and safety : honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten: were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other ; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats rewards... | |
 | Thomas Otway - 1813 - 362 pages
...got footing iu the world. Pier. Why, pow'rful villany first set it up, For it's own ease and safety : honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten: were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other ; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats rewards:... | |
 | Thomas Otway, Thomas Thornton - 1813 - 366 pages
...that damn'd starving Pier 1 . Why, pow'rful villany first set it up', For it's own ease and safety: honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten: were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other ; lawyers Would want practice,' Cut-throals'rewatds:... | |
 | 1824 - 660 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. Why", powerful villany first set it op, For its own ease and safety. Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. Were all mankind rillains. They'd starve each other; lawyers would *ml practice, Cut-throats reward... | |
 | Owen Williams - 1828 - 930 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. Why, powerful vi.Ianv first set it up, For its own ease and safety. Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten. Were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other; lawyers would want practice, Git-throals rewards... | |
 | 1828 - 342 pages
...cost him a breakfast. He is one of those honest, (•> tunate fools, to whom Pierre alludes : — " Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten." And, certainly, when Jeremy gets him in tow, be devours his loaf, swallows his coffee, and borrows... | |
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