 | 1803 - 444 strani
...raised him to immediate disi tinction as a dramatic author. We are not exactly of opinion that The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring ; but Mr. Boaden need not object to have his play tried even by that test, for it brought him pence... | |
 | John Corry - 1820 - 332 strani
...va-" luable. It is an excellent merchantable commodity, and reminds me of a couplet of Hud i bras: The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. SATIRICAL STRICTURES ON MODERN EDUCATION. The youth of all the higher and middle classes in society... | |
 | John Corry - 1820 - 328 strani
...and v« litable. It is an excellent merchantable commodity, and reminds me of a couplet of Hudibras: The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. SATIRICAL STRICTURES ON MODERN EDUCATION. The youth of all the higher and middle classes in society... | |
 | 1823 - 624 strani
...to hold the situation for one year. But it should not be said exorbitant ; for Hudibras says, " The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring." F2 operations in a given time, the success in the treatment of severe accidents, such as compound fractures,... | |
 | Thomas Dibdin - 1827 - 478 strani
...play (particularly when I have a hope of future * I had said, that as to the play, — The intrinsic value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring. assistance from you) is to me worth more than it will bring ; and if I should chance to make some lucky... | |
 | 1827 - 624 strani
...and what Mr. Dibdin said in jest, these Memoirs seriously repeat in every page;— " The intrinsic value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. apparent, that as much as possible of mercenary, and as little as possible of dramatic spirit enters... | |
 | Robert Walsh - 1837 - 504 strani
...he loved to coquet with the purchasers of his literary wares — and always acted upon the maxim, " The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring." 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 227 In the annexed fragment of a letter from Scott to Canning, we see... | |
 | Henry Lee - 1839 - 292 strani
...impracticability, have been in the teeth of a maxim of trade that was admitted before Mr. Jefferson's time? "The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring." Again.—The facts by which he attempts to corroborate this odious inference, if admitted, really destroy... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1867 - 1254 strani
...is, the rather, a little too knowing in his way, while his only standard of excellence is, that " ' The real value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring ;' and his invariable argument, ' Well, I only know that I would give more for this horse than for... | |
 | Canada Company (London, England) - 1841 - 90 strani
...horses, cows, sheep, and young stock are now worth, if we are guided by the Hudibrastic couplet, " The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring." Such things are just now unsaleable with us. Tis quite evident we want as one thing an influx of emigrants... | |
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Butler's famous tautology that " . . . . the value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring... 
