 | Great Britain - 1815 - 438 pages
...What the tenant docs not pay, the landlord cannot /tare. Of course Aw means are diminished ; so that what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other. And yet, the tenants cannot pay their •present rents. At any rate, the present taxes cannot be paid.... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1835 - 544 pages
...What the tenant does not pay, the landlord cannot have. Of course his means are diminished ; so that what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other. And yet, the tenants cannot pay their present rents. At any rate, the present taxes cannot be paid. The... | |
 | Royal Agricultural Society of England - Agriculture - 1863 - 786 pages
...economise space, and cost less than a number of small pans requiring to be renewed from time to time ; but what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other, by the smaller quantity and the inferior quality of the cream which they give, in comparison with shallow... | |
 | Meteorology - 1846 - 910 pages
...worth measuring, but if by increasing the gauge, the axle has to be increased in size for strength, what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other. The friction of the flange of the wheels against the railway has a retarding effect on curves, but... | |
 | John Smith (of Glasgow.) - 1851 - 424 pages
...keeps the eyes directed towards him, the current of his ideas are often disturbed, and, consequently, what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other. Nor can we say that his manner is entirely free, from an appearance at least, of something like affectation.... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Education - 1892 - 424 pages
...Abbe Terrasson may say to the contrary, there is no real progress in reason in the human race, because what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other ; for as all minds always start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others... | |
 | Jean-Jacques Rousseau - Education - 1892 - 424 pages
...Abbe Terrasson may say to the contrary, there is no real progress in reason in the human race, because what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other ; for as all minds always start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others... | |
 | William T. Harris, A. M., LL. D. - 1902 - 420 pages
...Abbe Terrasson may say to the contrary, there is no real progress in reason in the human race, because what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other; for as all minds always start from the same point, and as the time spent in learning what others have... | |
 | Electricity - 1908 - 860 pages
...prevent sparking. A mechanical method for preventing flashing over docs not help one very much, as what is gained on the one hand is lost on the other. Mr. Hartnell, in speaking about the winding which I proposed, thought there was a good deal of difficulty... | |
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... greater taste for the books of the ancients than for our own, on the simple ground that, being the first, the ancients are nearer to Nature, and have more native genius. Whatever La Motte and the Abbe Terrasson may say to the contrary, there is no... 
