Social Progress in Contemporary EuropeMacmillan, 1912 - 384 стор. |
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Сторінка 76 - The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose.
Сторінка 37 - Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. Social distinctions can be based only upon public utility. 2. The aim of every political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.
Сторінка 38 - The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law.
Сторінка 294 - People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.
Сторінка 38 - No person shall be accused, arrested or imprisoned except in the cases and according to the forms prescribed by law.
Сторінка 68 - Not only grain has become somewhat cheaper, but many other things from which the industrious poor derive an agreeable and wholesome variety of food have become a great deal cheaper.
Сторінка 38 - Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has a right to participate personally or through his representative in its formation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.
Сторінка 230 - no poor who refused to be lodged and kept in such houses should be entitled to ask or receive parochial relief,
Сторінка 66 - divided into small Enclosures from two Acres to six or seven each, seldom more, every three or four Pieces of Land had an House belonging to them ; . . . hardly an House standing out of a...
Сторінка 233 - TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY. WE, the COMMISSIONERS appointed by YOUR MAJESTY to make a diligent and full inquiry into the practical operation of the Laws for the Relief of the Poor in England and Wales, and into the manner in which those laws are administered, and to report...