 | Thomas Otway - 1899 - 64 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... | |
 | Thomas Otway - English drama (Tragedy) - 1797 - 456 pages
...got footing in the world. / Pier. Why, powerful villany first set it up, For its own case and safety" Honest men Are the soft easy cushions on which knaves Repose and fatten.N Were all mankind villains, They'd starve each other; lawyers would want practice, Cut-throats... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1792 - 340 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. 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... | |
 | John Bell - English drama - 1797 - 460 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. 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... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 946 pages
...got looting in the world. Pier. 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, sou] 246... | |
 | English drama - 1804 - 516 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. VVhy, 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, me, [OrwAY.... | |
 | British drama - 1804 - 954 pages
...got footing in the world. Pier. Why, powerful villany first set it up, For its (»vu 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, soul [Опт.... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1808 - 328 pages
...or inclined to pay the same price for influence. In this small society, as a sprightly au» 56 thor observes of a great one, that of the. city of London,...the soft easy cushions, on which knaves Repose and fatten," LF.TTER X. Departure from Aruba — Events till the arrival on the coast. — Singular order.-... | |
 | Mrs. Inchbald - English drama - 1808 - 376 pages
...got 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 prao tice, Cut-throats... | |
 | James Biggs - Venezuela - 1811 - 334 pages
...with an evil eye upon those, who are not obliged or inclined to pay the same price for influence. IB this small society, as a sprightly author observes...the soft easy cushions, on which knaves Repose and fatten." LETTER X. Departure from Aruba.~- Events till the arrival 0n the coast. — Singular order.... | |
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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... 
