 | Beatrice Grimshaw - 1908 - 516 頁
...be numbered among the company of the saints, but neither is the average " glorious human boy " — and on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, the pirate's new r61e may well have turned out a success. We came up to Niue graced by a last touch... | |
 | Samuel John Thomson - 1913 - 418 頁
...his brain. The caste to which he belonged combines pig - tending with a good deal of petty larceny, and, on the principle of setting a thief to catch a thief, the members of it are often employed as watchmen — and, curiously enough, are usually trustworthy.... | |
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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... 
