 | Samuel Bailey - Economics - 1823 - 424 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions ; the supposition, that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all...of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago." The strongest argument in favour of entails in our country is, probably, that they are in some degree... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1832 - 306 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all...and regulated according to the fancy of those who diedjperhaps five hundred years ago. — A, Smith. ТИЕАТШСАЪв FOB THIS Time at wkitk tin... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1831 - 610 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth and to all...that the property of the present generation should be fettered and regulated by barbarians, who died centuries ago. Entails, however, are still respected... | |
 | David P. Whitehead - Aristocracy (Political science) - 1832 - 252 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all .suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all...that the property of the present generation should be fettered and regulated by barbarians, who died centuries ago. Entails, however, are still respected... | |
 | John Wade - Church and state - 1832 - 730 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth and to all that it contains ; but that the property of the present generation should be fettered and regulated by barbarians... | |
 | Great Britain. Court of King's Bench, Sandford Nevile - Law reports, digests, etc - 1834 - 842 pages
...suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not iin equal right to the earth and all that it possesses, but that the property of the...regulated according to the fancy of those who died perhaps 500 years ago." In their anxiety to unfetter the inheritance, the judges, however, went much further... | |
 | John Wade - Great Britain - 1835 - 862 pages
...founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth and to all that it contains ; but that the property of the present generation should be fettered and regulated by barbarians... | |
 | Friedrich Liebe - Aristocracy (Political science) - 1844 - 366 pages
...upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition, that every successive generation of in an have not an equal right to the earth and to all, that it possesses; but that the properly of the present generation should be restrained and regulated according to the fancy of those... | |
 | Christian Isobel Johnstone - English fiction - 1846 - 394 pages
...— the supposition that every successive generation of men has not an equal right to the earth, and all that it possesses, but that the property of the...present generation should be restrained and regulated by the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.'" "Hear you that, my lord?" cried the... | |
 | Edinburgh tales - 1846 - 426 pages
...— the supposition that every successive generation of men has not an equal right to the earth, and all that it possesses, but that the property of the...present generation should be restrained and regulated by the fancy of those who died perhaps five hundred years ago.'" "Hear you that, my lord?" cried the... | |
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They are founded upon the most absurd of all suppositions, the supposition that every successive generation of men have not an equal right to the earth, and to all that it possesses; but that the property of the present generation should be restrained... 
