 | Francis Stuart Chapin - Economic history - 1917 - 348 pages
...to become gentlemen. These were they that in times past made all France afraid." 21 The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. So runs a protest in current... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Europe - 1917 - 684 pages
...holder is represented in a bit of doggerel current in the later eighteenth century : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Protest, however, was unavailing.... | |
 | 1918 - 942 pages
...decisions of a thousand Justices of the Peace have been gibbeted in one good rhyme : You prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leave the larger felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. But indeed it is not our point to... | |
 | Lucian Lamar Knight - American literature - 1919 - 636 pages
...that it sets an object lesson to the mills of justice on the other side of the bay of San Francisco. "The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose" SPARE THE LONDON FOG, SIR OLIVER. (Dec. 26, 1908.) Sir Oliver Lodge, the well-known English scientist,... | |
 | John Roscoe Turner - Economics - 1919 - 704 pages
...a meagre subsistence upon the commons. A popular piece of doggerel declared that: "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." It is the testimony of Jeremiah... | |
 | Willis Mason West - Civilization - 1920 - 824 pages
...expresses the feeling of the poor at this renewal of the ancient inclosure movement : — "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." And Goldsmith's pathetic "Deserted... | |
 | Royal Australian Historical Society - Australia - 1921 - 1010 pages
...instinct as theft on a big scale was a matter of instinct among the English rich — "Thp law looks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common,? But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." * Of . Dr. Hiillnrnii's advertisement... | |
 | Lynn Haines - United States - 1922 - 572 pages
...understood by all the Progressive Members. Very sincerely, JAMES A. FREAR. An Old Verse The law convicts the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the Common, But lets the greater rascal loose Who steals the Common from the Goose. Your Government At Washington Any open-throttle... | |
 | Willis Mason West - Europe - 1922 - 1076 pages
...benefit of their class. A rhyme of the day expresses the feeling of the yeomen : "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." The peasant farmers, having... | |
 | Arthur Louis Faubel - Economics - 1923 - 486 pages
...very unpopular as is indicated by the following bit of doggerel current at the time: "The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common; But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." 11. Mediaeval Economic Institutions.... | |
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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. 
