| Adam Smith - 1838 - 476 pages
...Europe, in which corporation laws are so little repressive. 'Die property which every man has in his nwn labour, as it is the original foundation of all other...and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in toe strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from employing this «•trtT.gth and dexterity... | |
| Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1839 - 614 pages
...his labour by violence, and he must be allowed entire control over it, or he relaxes into idleness. 'The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all property, so it is, of -1 others, the most sacred and inviolable.' Although tiifse words of Adam Smith... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1839 - 602 pages
...his labour by violence, and he must be allowed entire control over it, or he relaxes into idleness. ' The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all property, so it is, of all others, the most sacred and inviolable.' Although these words of Adam Smith... | |
| 1863 - 518 pages
...law of apprenticeship, the philosopher said : " The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property,...in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hiuder him from employing his strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper for his own advantage... | |
| 96 pages
...has always been held to be the robbery of the poor's box. What says Adam Smith — " The propel !y which every man has in his own labour as it is the original foundation of all oi'ner properly, so it is the most sacred and invaluable. The patrimony of (lie poor man lies in the... | |
| Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 pages
...which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so is it the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a...dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from employing his strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbor, is a plain... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1851 - 168 pages
...the market, and should never be controlled by the legislature. " The property," says Adam Smith, " which every man has in his own labour, as it is the...in the strength and dexterity of his hands : and to binder him from employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury... | |
| Erasmus Peshine Smith - 1853 - 282 pages
...for their condemnation ; nor can a more conclusive one be found than that of Adam Smith. He says : " The property which every man has in his own labour,...him from employing this strength and dexterity in whatever way he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbour, is a plain violation of this most sacred... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 134 pages
...parties in the market, without being interfered with by the legislature. "The property," says Adam Smith, "which every man has in. his own labour, as it is...strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him fron employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbours,... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch - 1854 - 138 pages
...parties in the market, without being interfered with by the legislature. "The property," says Adam Smith, "which every man has in his own labour, as it is the...strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him fron employing this strength and dexterity in what manner he thinks proper, without injury to his neighbours,... | |
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