| Hessel Duncan Hall - International trusteeships - 1972 - 454 pages
...have been 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...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. Nor was the failure merely that of the League. It was the failure also of the United States. The latter... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Works - 1958 - 432 pages
...been put so beautifully by the distinguished Senator from Illinois when he says : "the law locks up the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, and lets the greatest felon loose who steals the common from the goose." It seems to me that this is... | |
| Clive Barrett - Political Science - 1987 - 148 pages
...military base itself does not do that in far greater measure! It reminds one of the old enclosures rhyme: The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose...felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. SOLIDARITY Although the stereotype depicts women in spiteful rivalry and competition, women more usually... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) American essayist, poet, philosopher The law doth punish man or woman That steals the goose from off the common. But lets the greater felon loose, That steals the common from the goose. anonymous Property is a god. This god already has its theology... | |
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