 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1886 - 820 pages
...collecting debts against her were too slow and costly ; but this is another case where it would have been better " to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of." Certainly oar last condition is worse than our first. The Acts of 1891, also... | |
 | Laurence Oliphant - Mysticism - 1888 - 528 pages
...been pulled down. While, therefore, not attempting to deny that these evils exist, they maintain that it is better to bear the ills we have, than to fly to others that we know not of, more especially as these last but a short time ; while we have the promise of... | |
 | 1891 - 96 pages
...sections of the city and the cemented vault and odorless excavator in other portions. it. It is certainly better to " bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not of," and a badly constructed and defective sewerage system would be productive of greater disaster than... | |
 | George Edgeworth Fenwick, Thomas George Roddick, George Ross - Medicine - 1894 - 992 pages
...comfort and satisfaction which we desire and which nature knew how to bestow." So that it is sometimes better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not of. True, if the cause or causes of the diseased state which gives rise to these explosive convulsions... | |
 | Albert Frederick Calvert - Mines and mineral resources - 1895 - 184 pages
...XXXI. — An Advisory Syndicate . . . .138 XXXII.— The Command of the Sea . . .142 XXXIII. — " Better to bear the ills we have, than to fly to others that we know not of . 147 XXXIV. — A Product of Joint Stock Enterprise : The Promoter . . . . . .152... | |
 | China - 1896 - 198 pages
...time, and an ever present source of reproach to thrifty goodwives ; but, as the poet rightly sings, it is better to bear the ills we have, than to fly to others that we know not of. In this case, I speak with knowledge — eggs perto crede — for we have recently... | |
 | Kentucky. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Kentucky - 1898 - 1376 pages
...caleulated to prevent fraud, or to make all elections free and equal? And is it not "Better to fear the ills we have than to' fly to others we know not of?" By this bill local sell government is denied the people, and all power centralized in the hands of... | |
 | 1901 - 316 pages
...counterbalance the occasional good results which may be secured by its use, and "It is better to bear those ills we have than to fly to others we know not of." The use of these foreign bodies may prove to be somewhat of a surgical feat in a few instances. There is... | |
 | John Otway Percy Bland - English poetry literature - 1902 - 178 pages
...and an ever present source of reproach to thrifty goodwives ; but, as the poet rightly sings, •' it is better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of." In this case I speak with knowledge — fggK perto ererfo — for we have recently... | |
 | Edwin Samuel Montagu, Bron Herbert - Canada - 1904 - 230 pages
...we should leave well enough alone ; the country as a whole is fairly prosperous and contented. " Tis better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others we know not of." (E.) — The colonies are first of all interested in having Great Britain maintain her present high... | |
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It is well to remain content with things as they are ; or, in other words, it is better to bear the ills we have than to fly to others that we know not of. 
