"Incaution" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... personality—who lent even to the flimsiest case a semblance of substance and strength—whose consummate and watchful adroitness placed weak places quite out of the sight and reach of the shrewdest opponent, and never perilled a good case by a single act of incaution, negligence, rashness, or supererogation. When necessary, he would prove a case barely up to the point which would suffice to secure a decision in his favour, and then leave it—equally before the ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846 • Various |
