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 | John Chester Miller - Biography & Autobiography - 692 pages
...acquired by his fortune and industry. Like Blackstone, Hamilton thought that nothing "so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property," and that it tended "more powerfully than any other cause to augment the national wealth." His vision... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 468 pages
...century, provided a classic expression of this principle: There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises 16 326 US 501 (1946) (Justice Jackson... | |
 | Sean Coyle, Karen Morrow - Law - 2004 - 245 pages
...mankind's essentially unlimited power over the external world: There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Richard Rodger - Business & Economics - 2004 - 566 pages
...development in Scotland was liberated by the feuing system. There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property." 50 See chapters 4 and 6. 51 Rlackstone, Commentaries, vol. II, 2. Principal sources EDINBURGH CITY... | |
 | Margaret W. Ferguson, A. R. Buck, Nancy E. Wright - Social Science - 2004 - 340 pages
...draw to our attention the meaning of Blackstone's words 'There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property' ([1766] 1979, 2: 2; emphasis added). Like case studies of women's lived experience, well-known plays... | |
 | William W. Fisher, III - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 352 pages
...Blackstone's famous and influential paean to private ownership: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of the property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external... | |
 | Mark J. Cherry - Medical - 2005 - 288 pages
...Blackstone, reflecting on the common law of England, argued: "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Peter Farrugia - History - 2005 - 305 pages
...Property in Australian HiStory AR BUCK ^1 Introduction "There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind as the right of property, and yet there are very few who give themselves the trouble to consider the origin and foundation of... | |
 | Susan Glover - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 240 pages
...Conceiving the Civil Subject: Property, Power, and Prose There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
 | Remigius N. Nwabueze - Law - 2007 - 394 pages
...qualify as property rights."4 William Blackstone stated: There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world,... | |
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