| Thomas Newbigging - 1887 - 388 lehte
...rents were charged, and thus landlordism was Highlands. generally introduced into the country. " A man has a right to do what he likes with his own," was the motto of many of the landlords, and hence came the inhuman clearances of vast tracts of country... | |
| 1890 - 400 lehte
...of employing it in a proper manner for himself and others. Nothing is falser than the saying that a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. A man has not a right to do what he likes with his own. He has only a right to ido what he ought with... | |
| Peter Rylands - 1890 - 420 lehte
...as to produce the greatest amount of food for the community at large. It is a common saying that " a man has a right to do what he likes with his own," but that is not true as regards land. It is not his own, in the sense that no man made it. It is the... | |
| William Samuel Lilly - 1890 - 368 lehte
...sof employing it in a proper manner for himself and others. Nothing is falser than the saying that a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. A man has not a right to do what he likes with his own. He has only a right to do what he ought with... | |
| 1890 - 652 lehte
...of employing it in a proper manner for himself and others. Nothing is falser than the saying that a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. A man has not a right to do what he likes •with his own. He has only a right to do •what he ought... | |
| Charles Garvice - 1890 - 374 lehte
...cross the bridge and trespass on the grounds, and he doesn't like it. Quite right —quite right. A man has a right to do what he likes with his own." Elaine, as she remembered the promise of the key which the marquis had made her, hung her head, and... | |
| Charles St. John - 1891 - 352 lehte
...subject, but I have been led to do so by the honest conviction that, in property of this sort at least, every man has a right to "do what he likes with his own," provided his neighbour does not suffer thereby. Rabbits and hares are, like winged game, subject to... | |
| Russell Montague Garnier - 1893 - 594 lehte
...over those of his own class. The fact, however, that primogeniture is a custom, not a law, and that every man has a right to do what he likes with his own, so long as the interests of the community do not suffer, rendered the landlord almost invulnerable.... | |
| 1893 - 632 lehte
...the practice. For instance, one writes, " Selling at a loss springs from the curious notion that ' a man has a right to do what he likes with his own.' This mode of doing business is largely resorted to (a) by a new firm entering a market held by others... | |
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