profitablest

Have ye no doubt, said the king, of Sir Bors, for I call him now one of the best knights of the world, and the most profitablest man.

Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table 2003

All which difficulties notwithstanding, mine opinion is, to bring them up in the best and profitablest studies, and that a man should slightly passe over those fond presages, and deceiving prognostikes, which we over precisely gather in their infancie.

Of the Institution and Education of Children. To the Ladie Diana of Foix, Countesse of Gurson. 1909

In spite of his praise of the plough he allows that the sheep 'is the most profitablest cattel that a man can have', and he gives a list of their diseases, among the things that rot them being a grass called sperewort, another called peny grass, while marshy ground, mildewed grass, and grass growing upon fallow and therefore full of weeds were all conducive to rot.

A Short History of English Agriculture 1893

I find it infinitely the best plan, and to all appearance the profitablest as to money that could have been devised for me.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883

So that Usury and an ass are two of the profitablest beasts that a man can keep; yet th'one hath sharper teeth than th'other.

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

People are perpetually squabbling about what will be best to do, or easiest to do, or adviseablest to do, or profitablest to do; but they never, so far as I hear them talk, ever ask what it is _just_ to do.

The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859

The second thing is, that a sadder object than even that of the coal strike, or any other conceivable strike, is the fact that -- loosely speaking -- we may say all England has decided that the profitablest way is to do its work ill, slurily, swiftly, and mendaciously.

Thrift Samuel Smiles 1858

From the Universe of Fact he has turned himself away; he is gone into partnership with the Universe of Phantasm; finds it profitablest to deal in forged notes, while the foolish shopkeepers will accept them.

Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838

I find it infinitely the best plan, and to all appearance the profitablest as to money that could have been devised for me.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838

All which difficulties notwithstanding, mine opinion is, to bring them up in the best and profitablest studies, and that a man should slightly passe over those fond presages, and deceiving prognostikes, which we over precisely gather in their infancie.

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