 | Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman - 1881 - 644 pages
...off to see the sentence carried into effect, or to string him up with his own hand, on the principle that, "if you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself." The Act finishes with Katherine cursing Anne, which seems to affect her very slightly, though, to make... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 pages
...agents, do so for the purpose of taking office themselves. Why not, like them, act upon the maxim, " If you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself?" As a third party, temporary or permanent, an " independent" organization can do little except in those... | |
 | 1879 - 540 pages
...before them as simply as possible, and away they went. The old saying, however, came into my mind, " If you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself," so I followed and sat down among them, unseen by the king.' The chief man of the councillors repeated... | |
 | D. M. Kelsey - 1883 - 592 pages
...flower as fair and sweet as his lost Rose. In direct defiance of the one guiding principle of his life: "If you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself; You must not leave it to others," he sent John Alden, the young scribe whom ho had chosen as his friend,... | |
 | E. Galbraith - 1885 - 164 pages
...unless formally introduced, should be preceded by a comma. Examples. He often uttered the wise maxim, " If you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself." As Mr. Wiseacre remarked, " The art is not how to make money, but how to keep it." The dying remark... | |
 | Alexander Balloch Grosart - 1890 - 560 pages
...? Workmen die, but Thou dost live : In bleakest desolation, Thou Thy work dost carry on. CCLXIV. " IF YOU WANT A THING WELL DONE YOU MUST DO IT YOURSELF." — LONGFELLOW— " Courtship of Miles Standish." I. ' IF you want thing well done When, your heart... | |
 | Matthew Phipps Shiel - 1896 - 388 pages
...Giamschid, or the collars of Mahmood's ' ' Let another man praise thee, and not thy own mouth!' ' But if you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself: you must not leave it to others. For maxim, you see, I wreak you maxim, for parable, parable. Besides,... | |
 | Richard Marsh - 1898 - 334 pages
...took it ? " " Not the faintest notion." " Mr. Treadwater, this is another illustration of the fact that if you want a thing well done you must do it yourself. This morning I set a man to shadow Mr. Paxton — I told him not to let him get out of his sight. What... | |
 | Jean Grave - 1899 - 182 pages
...the rapid progress of-the Anarchistic idea. What reply, indeed, can be made to those who prove to you that if you want a thing well done you must do it yourself, and delegate it to nobody? With what can you reproach those who make you see that if you wish to be free,... | |
 | 1899 - 614 pages
...the rapid progress of the Anarchistic idea. What reply, indeed, can be made to those who prove to you that if you want a thing well done you must do it yourself, and delegate it to nobody? With what can you reproach those who make you see that if yoii wish to be free,... | |
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Peters escaped, glad to be elsewhere and questioning for the first time in his life the dictum that, if you want a thing well done, you must do it yourself. 
