The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Papers - الصفحة 185المحررون: - 1972 - عدد الصفحات: 293عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
| Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 820
...and affections." In fact, they would exclaim with Hudibras : " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, Who iteals the common from the goose ! " Dugdale very ingeniously argues, with regard to the dreaded... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 934
...of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. " The law condemns both man and woman, Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets the greater felon loose, Who steals the common from the goose." — Hitdibras. Therefore it would appear that the felons in... | |
| Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - عدد الصفحات: 938
...work of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. "The law condemns both man and woman, Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets the greater felon loose, Who steals the common from the goose." — Hudibra-i. For whose advantage, and at what cost, is this... | |
| Charles Wicksteed - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 144
...of the land and is well expressed in the homely lines : — " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." This rhyme does not go far enough, however, for the law not... | |
| Terence Vincent Powderly - 1889 - عدد الصفحات: 742
...•of a people of the inheritance ordained for them by God. "The Law condemns the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the Common; But lets the greater felon loose, Who steals the Common from the goose." God hasten the day when the " greater felon " will be brought... | |
| W. H. Bidwell - 1900 - عدد الصفحات: 522
...commons, and must join these Norfolk rebels in cursing the law which " Condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." It is curious to note that the oak at Hethersett, under which... | |
| Lucian Lamar Knight - 1908 - عدد الصفحات: 786
...his famous decision, the old couplet will have to be revised : "The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." Strictly in keeping with the statement which has just been made... | |
| 1909 - عدد الصفحات: 448
...desire with them was simply the father of possession : — The law condemns both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. In a more humble sphere of life there are also individuals, who,... | |
| Lucian Lamar Knight - 1919 - عدد الصفحات: 636
...mills of justice on the other side of the bay of San Francisco. "The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose" SPARE THE LONDON FOG, SIR OLIVER. (Dec. 26, 1908.) Sir Oliver... | |
| Hessel Duncan Hall - 1972 - عدد الصفحات: 454
...too obviously playing out the eighteenth-century doggerel — The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Nor was the failure merely that of the League. It was the failure... | |
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