| 1890 - 548 pages
...Kennedy, 2 Yerg. 554. The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original fonndation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing... | |
| George Alfred Dean - 1871 - 272 pages
...to obtain the entire fruits of their labour and skill, which is their property. Adam Smith wrote, ' The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor... | |
| Leone Levi - 1872 - 642 pages
...endanger the political existence of the state ; he asserted that the property which every man has in his labour as it is the original foundation of all other...property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. And he complained of the conditions imposed on workmen, whilst masters were left entirely uncontrolled.... | |
| Erasmus Peshine Smith - 1872 - 316 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, as it is the ori-. ginal foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony... | |
| Stephen Johnson Field, United States. Supreme Court, Joseph P. Bradley, Noah Haynes Swayne - 1873 - 60 pages
...inalienable right of humanity." *" The property which every man has in his own labor," says Adam Smith, " as it is the original foundation of all other property,...is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him from employing... | |
| Arthur Cayley Headlam - 1896 - 568 pages
...oppressions of the corporation laws. " The property which every man has in his labour," he says, " as it is the original foundation of all other property,...is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hinder him from employing this... | |
| Thomas Briggs (of Richmond, Surrey.) - 1877 - 276 pages
...work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament. and he always consults his dignity by doing it." " The property which every man has in his own labour,...the original foundation of all other property, so is it the most sacred and inviolable." — CHARLES TENNANT. "The sentence pronounced on man in the... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - 1878 - 200 pages
...of all the inhabitants or members of the society, under the title of fixed Capital, and he says, ' The Property which every man has in his own Labour,...lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands.' Ricardo designates Labour as a Commodity. So Huskisson said, ' Labour is the poor man's Capital,' meaning... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence. " The properly which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." 4 " This was the most metaphorical speech which Thomas of Gilsland was ever known to utter, the rather,... | |
| Adams Sherman Hill - 1878 - 336 pages
...grammatical connection with the rest of the sentence. " The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." 4 " This was the most metaphorical speech which Thomas of Gilsland was ever known to utter, the rather,... | |
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