 | 524 pàgines
...their employers ; between which positions no very wide distinction is admissible. It is true every man has a right to do as he likes with his own; but when a man, possessing a large estate, looks round the world with a due regard to his own happiness,... | |
 | James Johnson - 1834 - 262 pàgines
...in these northern regions ! It is clear that his Grace of Argyle has acted differently ; but every man has a right to " do as he likes with his own." It is probable, however, that it would be wiser policy, and more practical economy, in the Marquess... | |
 | 1839 - 416 pàgines
...imperishable and iiresistible when united with high-mindedness." for him. Thus, then, 1 say, " every man has a right to do as he likes with his own." We shall like to eat, wear, and inhabit the produce of our labour. He maydo the same. But if he will... | |
 | John William Carleton - 1845 - 496 pàgines
...their employers ; between which positions no very wide distinction is admissible. It is true every man has a right to do as he likes with his own ; but when a man, possessing a large estate, looks round the world with a due regard to his own happiness,... | |
 | James Johnson - 1844 - 406 pàgines
...will exclaim, " there is no remedy — no tampering or interfering with private property — every man has a right to do as he likes with his own." Interfere...over a per centage of it into the Government purse ? u This is only one sample of the thousand ways in which Government daily and hourly intermeddles... | |
 | 1864 - 196 pàgines
...obliged to buy it ? It is sufficient to reply to this, that while it still .remains to be proved that a man has a right to do as he likes with his own, it has never yet been even pretended that he can do as he lists with that which is other people's.... | |
 | George Alfred Lawrence - 1866 - 314 pàgines
...cried out, with a noisy recklessness. " D—n it all! I don't know why I should be so squeamish. A man has a right to do as he likes with his own. After all, it's only what I've been thinking of for myself, these months past; and what, I daresay,... | |
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - 1866 - 752 pàgines
...he cried out, with a noisy recklessness. " D n it all! I don't know why I should be so squeamish. A man has a right to do as he likes with his own. After all, it's only what I've been thinking of for myself, these months past ; and what, I daresay,... | |
 | George Alfred Lawrence - 1867 - 150 pàgines
...cried out, with a noisy recklessness. " D — n it all ! I don't know why I should be so squeamish. A man has a right to do as he likes with his own. After all, it 'a only what I 've been thinking of for myself, these months post ; and what, I dare... | |
 | Victoria cross, Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1867 - 448 pàgines
...league would at once be pronounced illegal in England, where it is a recognised principle that every man has a right to do as he likes with his own ; but the Maori tenure of land is different. It rarely belongs to a single family or to a single individual... | |
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Its real use is to warn us against the abuse of the more popular adage that " a man has a right to do as he likes with his own," which errs much more dangerously on the other side. 
