 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Shirley Brooks - 1912 - 546 頁
...pen haviuj; ' appeared in The People's Journal, The Record, Tlu; Post, and other popular newspapers, and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief he should be able to enlist the services of caiwWe authors/' These sweeping and, no doubt, baseless... | |
 | 1860 - 600 頁
...property, by appointing an individual aa the public guard and watchman of the little commonwealth, and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief the members of this force were invariably selected from the classes which were most notorious for thievery.... | |
 | 1866 - 802 頁
...make terms with them. Liberio Romano, chief of the police, took some of the Camorriste into his pay, and, on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, placed them in the police force. The experiment was to a certain extent successful, for the Camorriste,... | |
 | 1901 - 510 頁
...advocates the formation of a special department by this government for the suppression of anarchism, and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, argues that the only rational way of. obtaining the secrets of the anarchists is to secure the material... | |
 | 1873 - 442 頁
...Tribes have even accepted allotments of land, with gifts of oxen, seed, and agricultural implements, and, on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, others have been allowed to enrol themselves in the rural police. Travellers to-day, instead of paying... | |
 | 1873 - 636 頁
...Tribes of them have accepted allotments of land, with gifts of oxen, seed, and agricultural implements, and, on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, others have been allowed to enrol themselves in the rural police. " Travellers to-day, instead of paying... | |
 | New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives - 1879 - 582 頁
...gallant gentleman suspected the Government of continuing a practice initiated by the late Government, and, on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, thought that things could not be done by the present Government in any other way than that which he... | |
 | Charles West Cope, Charles Henry Cope - 1891 - 432 頁
...they took him prisoner. He was taken before (I believe) Lord Darlington, who spoke kindly to him ; and on the principle of ' setting a thief to catch a thief,' he invited him to become one of his keepers. After consideration Paul gave his reply : that he would... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus, Francis Morgan Nichols - 1901 - 668 頁
...inclusion of this epistle without any comment is not creditable to the perspicacity of the editor, and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, or, with more reason, a forger to catch a forger, one can scarcely believe that the person who edited... | |
 | Richard Marsh - 1906 - 338 頁
...London. " Come by next train to the Manor House, Baynham. " PHILIP FORD." 206 " That will bring him ; and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief he should be the very man I want." When he reached home, going straight to his study, he took out of... | |
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The inclusion of this epistle without any comment is not creditable to the perspicacity of the editor, and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief... 
