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" horse while another may not look over the hedge," has been seldom more fully exemplified than in the circumstance I am about to mention. "
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations Taken on ... - Page 15
by Alfred Bunn - 1840
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The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist

1844 - 640 pages
...not admitted as regular practitioners in the courts of legal trickery ? If we want proof of the adage that one man may steal a horse while another may not look over the hedge, we shall find it in comparing the recognised frauds of customs with the much vituperated Customs' frauds....
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Don Juan Manuel. Mendoza. Mateo Aleman. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Thomas Roscoe - 1832 - 386 pages
...about to permit it; but I suppose that they will not see what is not convenient, as the proverb says, ' One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge.' For my part, I am of opinion, as the proverb says, ' That every little makes mickle,' and therefore,...
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Don Juan Manuel. Mendoza. Mateo Aleman. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1832 - 394 pages
...to permit it ; but I suppose that they will not see what is not convenient, as the proverb says, ' One man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge.' For my part, I am of opinion, as the proverb says, ' That every little makes mickle,' and therefore,...
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The British Magazine and Monthly Register of Religious and ..., Volume 10

1836 - 814 pages
...before, as to this important matter. MEETING AT EXETER HALL. THERE is a very vulgar proverb, which says, that "one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the stable door." So it is certainly in church matters. During the Hampden controversy, some person at...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain: From "observations ..., Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 346 pages
...4,921 3 0 8 — Hamlet 4,099 18 6 10 — Othello 4,762 6 0 8 — lago 3,723 8 6 B — Luke 1,372 7 6 r in a personal or a pecuniary point of view, the time...genius of a Garrick, a Kemble, a Siddons, a Kean, Sic., &c., with equestrian entertainments. It is perfectly true that I have resorted to quadruped performances,...
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The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations ..., Volume 1

Alfred Bunn - 1840 - 288 pages
...brilliant success that could be anticipated — at other times they were frustrated by those causes lhat will eventually frustrate the efforts of any entrepreneur....pollute, on sundry occasions, the arena which has been immortalized by the genius of a Garrick, a Kemble, a Siddons, a Kean, &c., &c., with equestrian entertainments....
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Indigestion curable; a treatise on derangement of the liver and digestive organs

Howard Styles - 1849 - 74 pages
...with daily ? How much more will some men require to intoxicate them than others ? The proverb of " One man may steal a horse while another may not look over the stable door,'' is particularly applicable to the stomachs of different men. How, then, is it possible...
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The Roman Catholic Question: A Copious Series of Important Documents, of ...

1851 - 398 pages
...one of them. Is sauce for the goose sauce for the gander? or are we to live on, verifying the adage, that one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the hedge ? Ireland has, without objection, been territorially divided into Catholic archiepiscopal and episcopal...
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Undercurrents overlooked, by the author of Flemish interiors, Volume 1

Julia Clara Byrne - 1860 - 366 pages
...produced, the latter will have every reason to consider themselves injured illustrations of the old proverb that ' one man may steal a horse while another may not look over a hedge :' for at any rate they did pay that outward respect to virtue which consists in concealment...
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The Christian world magazine (and family visitor).

1871 - 970 pages
...broader, more catholic, too, and are learning to look upon sect as an infirmity. Don't you know the old proverb, that one man may steal a horse, while another may not look over the gata ? Well, you are in the position of the man who cannot go near the field without being traduced....
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