 Though the earth and all inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his.  Harvard Law Review - Page 1851906Full view - About this book
 | John Locke - Liberty - 1764 - 438 pages
...no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the fupport of his life. §. 27. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common...to all men, yet every man has a property in his own per/on : this no body has any right to but himfelf. The labour of his body, and the 'work of his hands,... | |
 | John Locke - 1823 - 516 pages
...can no longer have any right to it, before it can do him any good for the support of his life. § 27. Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common...himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his VOL. v. AA hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature... | |
 | John Locke - Coinage - 1824 - 514 pages
...before it can do him any good for the support of his Jife. ^(j2J*\Though the earth, and all inferiour creatures, be common to all men, yet every man has...The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, VOL. IV. 2 A we may say, are properlyJhis. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature... | |
 | Robert Rickards - India - 1832 - 828 pages
...bestowed their labour thereon, it became, by natural right, their own. Mr. Locke's words are — " Though the earth, and all inferior creatures, be common...The labour of his " body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly "his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that " nature hath provided,... | |
 | Thomas Rutherforth - International law - 1832 - 620 pages
...and inquire, whether his first principles are true. As every man has a property in his own person, the labour of his body and the work of his hands are properly his. Now the labour of a man's body or the work of his hands, may mean either the personal act of working,... | |
 | George Poulett Scrope - Economics - 1833 - 496 pages
...foundation of a right to property. ' Every man,' he says, ' has a property in his own person, that nobody has any right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, are his property. Whatsoever, then, he removes out of the state that nature hath left it in, he hath mixed... | |
 | Parapsychology - 1848 - 424 pages
...right to it, before it con do him any good for the support of his life. " Though the earth and all the inferior creatures be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person. This noiody hat any right to but himself. The labor of his body and the work of his bands, we may say, are... | |
 | Albrecht von Baron HALLER - Constitutional history - 1849 - 388 pages
...another can no longer have any right to it, before it can d» him any good for the support of his life. " Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common...The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say, are properly his. Whatsoever then he removes out of the state that nature hath provided,... | |
 | Herbert Spencer - Economics - 1851 - 492 pages
...these arguments, and examine its defects. " Though the earth and all inferior creatures," says Locke, " be common to all men, yet every man has a property in his own person: this nobody has a right to but himself. The labour of his body, and the work of his hands, we may say tire properly... | |
 | Hinton Rowan Helper - Slavery - 1857 - 432 pages
...be convinced that an Englishman, much less a gentleman, should plead for it." Again, he says : — " Though the earth, and all inferior creatures be common...person ; this nobody has any right to but himself." PITT says : — "It la injustice to permit slavery to remain for a single hour." FOX says : — "With... | |
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