| District of Columbia. Court of Appeals - Law reports, digests, etc - 1895 - 640 pages
...following words from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations: "The property which every man has in his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands, and to hinder his... | |
| Edmund Sheridan Purcell - Cardinals - 1895 - 852 pages
...no will to be revolutionary. Adam Smith says, "The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands ; and to hinder him from... | |
| 1895 - 980 pages
...definition of labour by Adam Smith : — •" The property which every man has is his own labour ; as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to hinder him from... | |
| John Rae - Business & Economics - 1895 - 484 pages
...oppressions of the corporation laws. " The property which every man has in his labour," he says, " as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and 74 Life of Adam Smith CHAP. dexterity of his... | |
| Ohio. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1898 - 622 pages
...and unconstitutional and said, at page 183 : ' ' The property which every man has is his own labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and State ex rel. Bramley v. Norton, etc., Cleveland (City.) inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man... | |
| George Brooks - Industrial policy - 1895 - 350 pages
...description of property. Adam Smith says : " The property which every man has in his own labour, as it is the foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands; and to hinder him from... | |
| Ohio. Courts - Law reports, digests, etc - 1901 - 788 pages
...And again, on page 183 : ' 'The property which every man has is his own labor, as it is the qriginal foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable. The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his own hands; and to hinder him... | |
| Thomas Francis Bayard - Free enterprise - 1896 - 52 pages
...essential right ; for to use the words of Adam Smith : " The property which every man has in his labour, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolate." "The patrimony of the poor man lies in the strength and dexterity of his hands, and to... | |
| 1896 - 848 pages
...essential right ; [30] for to use the words of Adam Smith, " The property which every man has in his labor, as it is the original foundation of all other property, so it is [30] the mos' sacred and inviolate. The patrimony of a poor man lies in the srength and dexterity of... | |
| Henry Dunning Macleod - Economics - 1896 - 778 pages
...service. As Smith says— "The Property which every man has in his own Labour, as it is the onpnal foundation of all other property, so it is the most sacred and inviolable." Now a person may sell the Right to demand some labour or Servii e from him. As all these services,... | |
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