...deeds must win the prize. Foul deeds will rise, Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. How poor an...

...something trite and apposite ?" "What do you say to a quotation?" asked Salter. " Something like ' How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done,' for instance." " That will do beautifully for a start," said Haller. " We must spin it out, though,"...

...became a temptation. Men seldom perfect a machinery that they do not strongly desire to put in action. " How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes ill deeds done." If the means thus wasted upon her armaments, and in the prosecution of a disastrous war, had been expended...

...hesitating way. The price of votes on the first day was from 5£. to Ql. Our great dramatist says : How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, Makes ill deeds done ! So it was in the present case. The polling continued for seven days. On the fourth day Mr. Ewart...

...be the Complement of a Noun : as — " A time to weep and a time to laugh . . ." (Eccl. iii. 4.) " The sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done . . ." (K. John, iv. 2.) " Hast thou o charm to stay the morning star ?" (Coleridge, Hymn.) " A crime...

...entertainment for man and beast " stood a barrow. On that barrow were exposed for sale a number of lettuces. " How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds, makes ill deeds done." One of my practical jokers became a purchaser, and in the twinkling of a pig's whisker had snugly concealed...

...conceptions a local habitation and а name. Sight, mental or bodily, not only recalls, but originates. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done ! The mind is less easily affected by that which sinks into it through the ear than by that which is...

...open mouth swallowing a tailor's news. Act iv. Sc. 2. Another lean, unwash'd artificer. Act iv. Sc. 2. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! Act iv. Sc. 2. Mocking the air with colours idly spread. Actv. Sc. 1. This England never did, nor...

...swallowing a tailor's news. [King John continued. Another lean, unwash'd artificer. Act iv. Sc. z. How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! Ibid. Mocking the air with colours idly spread. Actv.Sc. i. This England never did, nor never shall,...

...'twixt heaven and earth Is to be made, then shall this hand and seal Witness against us to damnation ! How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds Makes ill deeds done ! Hadst not thou been by, A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted and sign'd to do a deed of...