 | William Rowlestone Henry Jessop - Australia - 1862 - 308 pages
...to tumble into the kennel, he could be borne along to the meads without the aid of the buck-basket. It is possible to have too much of a good thing ; the people of Melbourne sometimes think so, so also do those of Sydney, when they find the railroad swamped,... | |
 | John Richard Holding - 1876 - 244 pages
...Judith scolded they stroked her face with a sugary spoon, to pacify her. Many children have found that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The Carney boys were gluttons for toffee, and they paid the usual penalty for excess. For three days they... | |
 | Banks and banking - 1885 - 912 pages
...over-production. Messrs. Patry and Pasteur write in their Annual Review for 1883 as follows : — " If it is possible to have too much of a good thing, the remark certainly applies to the condition of this important market during the greater part of 1883,... | |
 | British Dental Association - Dentistry - 1883 - 664 pages
...neighbours it was best adapted for the open air. I say not a word against the quality, I only say that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The speeches were of the ordinary sort, but under the guidance of the Chairman things moved briskly. Lord... | |
 | William Winter - Journalism - 1889 - 72 pages
...American press, like almost everything else in the Republic, suffers under an excess of Democracy. It is possible to have too much of a good thing. The nauseating frivolity of many of the publications that are made about the stage arises from the indirect... | |
 | George Grove - Simfonie - 1896 - 416 pages
...the immortal Symphony was once more played over. After this we may doubt the truth of the saying that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The first report of the music, that of the concert at Herr von Wiirth's, in January, 1805, is in the Vienna... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1899 - 538 pages
...the audience, which, in view of the length of the program, was beginning to believe that, after all, it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The Kingstonians had put their hope in this event upon the Twins. None but the Dozen could tell them apart,... | |
 | American Foundrymen's Society - Founding - 1911 - 432 pages
...to harden since it forms with iron a compound which is harder than the iron itself. 100 from 2 to 3% silicon present (depending on the rate of cooling...silicon standards unless each of these factors is known. Fig. IX, which is taken from Turner (131, p. I95). shows the approximate relationship between silicon... | |
 | Stephen Paget - World War, 1914-1918 - 1915 - 250 pages
...War. Our country would be none the worse for more control, more system, in many of its affairs. But it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The Germans laugh at us for " muddling through " : we laugh at them for living under the thumb of authority.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - Block grants - 1983 - 42 pages
...unpredictable economy. We all appreciate the desirability of certainty and stability in funding, but it is possible to have too much of a good thing. The question of the future of general revenue sharing, which is proposed to consolidated with a portion... | |
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In other words, it is possible to have too much of a good thing, the good thing in this case being silicon. 
