 | J. G. Medlicott - Cotton growing - 1862 - 522 pages
...investigations, but a crop, and even without the hearty testimony to his zeal recorded by Mr. Collector Reade, the story of his operations contains abundant...interested in the question involved, to regret with Dr. Iloyle, that the trial was not proceeded with. Success seemed so near, each year the same phenomena... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 546 pages
...tacit support of the Government were designed to overthrow the Constitution in Church and in State. It is easy of course to be wise after the event, but it is now impossible to avoid regret that the Opposition should have consented to exercise only its... | |
 | Francis Hitchman - 1879 - 556 pages
...tacit support of the Government were designed to overthrow the Constitution in Church and in State. It is easy of course to be wise after the event, but it is now impossible to avoid regret that the Opposition should have consented to exercise only its... | |
 | Family medicine - 1895 - 624 pages
...whole expenditure under this head to be totalled up, the aggregate would not be far short of £40,000. It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but in this case the stock criticism, were it to be advanced, would be misplaced. Hero is an abstract from... | |
 | Cosmo Rose-Innes - South African War, 1899-1902 - 1901 - 198 pages
...itself just as unimportant from a strategical point of view, stretching far away to the line of sky ? It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but even with this qualification it is difficult to conceive how it ever was supposed that infantry could... | |
 | Christian sociology - 1904 - 528 pages
...suit. But unfortunately the discretion of the apostles of the movement was not equal to their zeal. It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event. But there are certain great principles of international conduct which cannot be ignored with impunity.... | |
 | Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - Antarctica - 1909 - 588 pages
...route to the Magnetic Pole, and we hope that the path thus found will prove of use to future observers. It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but there is no doubt that had we known that there was going to be an abundance of seals all along the... | |
 | Francis McCullagh - Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912 - 1912 - 524 pages
...being open desert, it gave the invaders less opportunity to cut off the Turks when they approached. It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but there can be no doubt that the Turks lost a great chance at this time by keeping pegging away night... | |
 | Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - Antarctica - 2007 - 772 pages
...route to the Magnetic Pole, and we hope that the path thus found will prove of use to future observers. It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but there is no doubt that had we known that there was going to be an abundance of seals all along the... | |
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It is easy, of course, to be wise after the event, but it is not then that knowledge is needed. 