 Strengthened by this evidence, and on the principle that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, he would bend all his energies to pressing 192 the former charge regardless of consequences to the latter.  The Van Suyden Sapphires - Página 196de Charles Carey Waddel - 1905 - 333 páginasVisualização completa - Sobre este livro
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...depth and circumstances, it must still be held very unlikely that coal ever will be got in this tract. And on the principle that "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," we should avoid putting too much reliance on possible coal-fields. Their existence... | |
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