...raised him to immediate disi tinction as a dramatic author. We are not exactly of opinion that The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring ; but Mr. Boaden need not object to have his play tried even by that test, for it brought him pence...

...opinion that I had bought my estate in Long. island at a very dear rate. Hudibras says, " The real value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring." According to this rule, therefore, I made a cheap purchase, or at any rate a good bargain, by reselling...

...luable. It is an excellent merchantable commodity, and reminds me of a couplet of Hud i bras: The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. SATIRICAL STRICTURES ON MODERN EDUCATION. The youth of all the higher and middle classes in society...

...litable. It is an excellent merchantable commodity, and reminds me of a couplet of Hudibras: The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. SATIRICAL STRICTURES ON MODERN EDUCATION. The youth of all the higher and middle classes in society...

...to hold the situation for one year. But it should not be said exorbitant ; for Hudibras says, " The value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring." F2 operations in a given time, the success in the treatment of severe accidents, such as compound fractures,...

...play (particularly when I have a hope of future * I had said, that as to the play, — The intrinsic value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring. assistance from you) is to me worth more than it will bring ; and if I should chance to make some lucky...

...and what Mr. Dibdin said in jest, these Memoirs seriously repeat in every page;— " The intrinsic value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring. apparent, that as much as possible of mercenary, and as little as possible of dramatic spirit enters...

...to coquet with the purchasers of his literary wares — and always acted upon the maxim, " The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring." 1837.] Lockharfs Life of Scott. 227 In the annexed fragment of a letter from Scott to Canning, we see...

...rather, a little too knowing in his way, while his only standard of excellence is, that " ' The real value of a thing Is just as much as it will bring ;' and his invariable argument, ' Well, I only know that I would give more for this horse than for...

...have been in the teeth of a maxim of trade that was admitted before Mr. Jefferson's time? "The real value of a thing, Is just as much as it will bring." Again.—The facts by which he attempts to corroborate this odious inference, if admitted, really destroy...