 | Innes Hoole - 1821 - 688 sider
...same disadvantages as those she reprehended in the other. There is indeed no saying so true, as that " one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over the hedge," and Stanley, in the same measure, might have been " wooed and married and a' " to one daughter, while... | |
 | 1828 - 560 sider
...Colonel Wilson and Frank Buckle are above all suspicion — leaving nothing more to be said, than " one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over the hedge !" The next race in a great measure goes to prove this position. Glenartney was as great a favorite... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 302 sider
...confessedly lives by puffs, and yet pursues his avocation without impeachment : so true is it that one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over the hedge ! Both evils will work out their own cure, and puffing the most speedily, if there be any truth in... | |
 | Horace Smith - 1836 - 426 sider
...confessedly lives by puffs, and yet pursues his avocation without impeachment : so true is it that one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over the hedge ! Both evils will work out their own cure, and puffing the most speedily, if there be any truth in... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - 1841 - 600 sider
...Nottinghamshire.' — ED." It is too true, and the truth is too often sadly exemplified in party writings, that one man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge. Or, may we charitably believe that when the Editor began his labours, he had not formed an acquaintance... | |
 | Samuel Roffey Maitland - 1841 - 586 sider
...Nottinghamshire.' — ED." It is too true, and the truth is too often sadly exemplified in party writings, that one man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge. Or, may we charitably believe that when the Editor began his labours, he had not formed an acquaintance... | |
 | 1848 - 392 sider
...eggs or young, seems. really a more guilty party, is not in general even suspected. So true is it that one man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge. Nervous and fastidious persons object to their cry, or, call, which, indeed, is not melodious ; and... | |
 | Edmund Saul Dixon - 1848 - 388 sider
...eggs or young, seems really a more guilty party, is not in general even suspected. So true is it that one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over the hedge. The hen does not lay till her third summer ; but she then seems to have an instinctive fear of her... | |
 | Daniel Jay Browne - 1850 - 342 sider
...or young, seems really a more guilty party, is not, in general, even suspected. So true is it that " one man may steal a horse, while another must not look over a hedge." Nervous and fastidious persons object to their cry, or call, which, indeed, is not melodious... | |
 | William Mountford - 1852 - 400 sider
...difference. But the woman is not worse than old Sally, and perhaps is not as bad. And that shows, again, that one man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge." " But. Mrs. Satterthwaite, you cannot mean that old Sally has ever been a horse-steafer ? " " O, no,... | |
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Heine himself suffered from it, illustrate forcibly the old proverb that one man may steal a horse while another must not look over the hedge. 
