 It may have been so, sir. But I have a bad opinion of Black. I don't think he would stick at much." "It is just this, Geoff, as I believe: that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.  Jeannette Isabelle: A Novel - Էջ 156George Valentine Cox - 1837Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | 1835 - 598 էջ
..." Albeit given to the melting mood," are not extremely poetical. No — there is much more truth in the old saying, " Give a dog a bad name, and hang him ;" for far better would it be that he should quit the stage of canine existence, dangling from a tree... | |
 | George Valentine Cox - 1837 - 896 էջ
...might have partly risen from real independence of mind, and partly also from a sort of laissez alter feeling, which his extreme laziness and facility of...dissuaded his infant son from buying a three franc fiddle or a penny trumpet in the Champs Elysees, as he thought on the exposure to low company and bad... | |
 | 1835 - 606 էջ
..."Albeit given to the melting mood," are not extremely poetical. No — there is much more truth in the old saying, " Give a dog a bad name, and hang him ;" for far better would it be that he should quit the stage of canine existence, dangling from a tree... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood, Charles William Wood - 1871 - 504 էջ
...he would stick at much." "It is just this, Geoff, as I believe: that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.' He is not a white sheep by any means : but I dare say report makes him out to be a great deal worse... | |
 | 1869 - 634 էջ
...Sir Astley Cooper in one of his lectures asserted that cases of rupture had occurred from its use. The old saying, " Give a dog a bad name and hang him," was soon exemplified, and fear caused the dandy -horse to be laid aside. I trust that the improved... | |
 | Ellen Wood - 1871 - 342 էջ
...would stick at much." "It is just this, Geoff, as I believe ; that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.' He is not a white sheep by any means : but I dare say report makes him out to be a great deal worse... | |
 | Francis Orpen Morris - 1880 - 294 էջ
...muzzle are as unlike those features of the common rat as need to be, but it is only another illustration of the old saying, " Give a dog a bad name and hang him." Call him a rat, and set an iron trap to mangle his tender limbs, and put him to a most cruel death.... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1888 - 584 էջ
...brought щ> by a voluntary charitable society. The stigma of the reformatory is upon them; and. true to the old saying, "Give a dog a bad name and hang him,'' employers are shy of them. Secondly, the life of a large institution is not favorable to the best development... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Wood - 1903 - 484 էջ
...would stick at much." " It is just this, Geoff, as I believe ; that Black's case is an illustration of the old saying, ' Give a dog a bad name, and hang him.' He is not a white sheep by any means • but I dare say report makes him out a great deal worse than... | |
 | 1917 - 456 էջ
...the government will have to step in and reserve certain country districts for industrial purposes. "The old saying, 'Give a dog a bad name and hang him,' might well be applied to the tanning industry. From time immemorial there has been a rooted objection... | |
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