 | Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason - Banks and banking - 1865 - 280 pages
...anything at all from most of the shareholders, and even then had very often to end with a compromise, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread. It is not too much to say that for every five-pound note we recovered, the expenses incurred were not... | |
 | Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason - London (England) - 1865 - 296 pages
...anything at all from most of the shareholders, and even then had very often to end with a compromise, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread. It is not too much to say that for every five-pound note we recovered, the expenses incurred were not... | |
 | William John Fitz-Patrick - Novelists, Irish - 1879 - 456 pages
...this occasion ; but surely the esprit de corps he evinced indicated a less mercenary spirit than if, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, he grasped at a mutilated stipend. Meanwhile the three most popular novelists of the day, clad in pink,... | |
 | Clephane Rose - Wife abuse - 1881 - 136 pages
...granting it would be greatly increased. They therefore demand the smaller boon in the first instance, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread. Women are not born "wives" as some are born negroes. Thy may become wives or not, partly according... | |
 | Charles George Walpole - Ireland - 1882 - 668 pages
...very much to the position in which they were at the end of the reign of Henry VIII. ; and the Pope, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, consented to receive back his erring children upon these terms. Elizabeth's first act in Ireland was... | |
 | George Frederick Chambers - 1883 - 228 pages
...but "civilized" Name-posts, Newspapers, PostOffice Stamps" are wiping out BUrne, and I accept BOUrne on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread. Still I grieve over all wiping out of our historical land-marks, and the names or places are amongst... | |
 | Guy Boothby - Asia, Southeastern - 1894 - 414 pages
...conditions which made it inadequate and unpalatable to the North, Northern members decided to accept it on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread. In doing so they incurred the very strong displeasure of their constituents, and the final rejection... | |
 | Gilbert Abbott À Beckett - Great Britain - 1894 - 728 pages
...intent on obtaining the dignity which he could purchase by perjury, and Clement took a reduced fee, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, from a man who, on the slightest opposition being offered to him, might have snapped his fingers at... | |
 | 1895 - 480 pages
...Stiles or not at all," he said briskly. " There's my offer. Take it or leave it as you please." And on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, Cicely did take it. Amongst other indulgences, her cousin had requested that Cicely might be permitted... | |
 | F. Emily Phillips - 1895 - 614 pages
...Owen, who was indeed to his mind nothing short of revolutionary. ' Evolutionary,' corrected Owen. But on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, he thought Owen might be willing to work for him. And Owen was very glad to do so. ' I deny the principle... | |
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Elgin told us that, if the paragraphs were not omitted, he would not receive the address ; and, on the principle of half a loaf being better than no bread, we omitted the paragraphs. 
