| Charles St. John - 1891 - 352 sidor
...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... | |
| 1893 - 632 sidor
...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... | |
| Russell Montague Garnier - 1893 - 594 sidor
...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.... | |
| 1894 - 232 sidor
...business men. One was the theory of the absolute right of private property in the unchristian sense that a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. The other was the recognition of an unlimited freedom of contract apart from any previous moral considerations.... | |
| Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - 1895 - 604 sidor
...in appropriating as much as he can, but only as much as he can without injury to any one else. 3. No man has a right to do what he likes with his own unless he likes to do what is right. The one significant theological utterance of the week was a paper... | |
| Robert Collier (Baron Monkswell.) - 1896 - 316 sidor
...a head of game is perhaps doubtful; but on the great principle current among landlords, that every man has a right to do what he likes with his own, it was generally recognised that within the limits of his own domain Grenville was at liberty to take... | |
| Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 578 sidor
...give it a patriotic meaning by painting their signs red, white, and blue. This is all very well, for a man has a right to do what he likes with his sign, but it takes away what little sense still remains in using a blood-letting sign for a barber... | |
| Joseph Arch - 1898 - 452 sidor
...farmers' interests. You may just as well expect the cat to guard the cream." I also said : " It is said a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. That is not true. You cannot put a nuisance under your neighbour's window or where you choose ; you... | |
| Joseph Arch - 1898 - 450 sidor
...farmers' interests. You may just as well expect the cat to guard the cream." I also said : " It is said a man has a right to do what he likes with his own. That is not true. You cannot put a nuisance under your neighbour's window or where you choose ; you... | |
| 1903 - 692 sidor
...despise it. A general remark that was for a time passed about to justify the operators was the saying, "A man has a right to do what he likes with his own." There never was a saying more untrue. The very foundation of our social system is the principle that... | |
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