fix a limit

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Lord Kitchener: If you could fix a limit it would clear up the matter.

From The peace negotiations between the governments of the South African Republic and the Orange Free State, and the representatives of the British government, which terminated in the peace concluded at Vereeniging on the 31st May, 1902 by Velden, D. E. van

Give a chimpanzee articulate expression and language, and no one could fix a limit to his progress.

From The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations by Hornaday, William Temple

Who can fix a limit to the intelligence or the achievements of our species?

From Caesar's Column by Donnelly, Ignatius

I think if you fix a limit you should stick to it.

From Prince Fortunatus by Black, William

If it is a labour to us, who will fix a limit to another person's industry?

From The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero by Yonge, Charles Duke