| Nancy Lee Peluso - Social Science - 2023 - 348 pages
...Chinese. 7. Chambers (1983:12) based these lines on the following old English rhyme: "They clap in gaol the man or woman / Who steals the goose from off the common / But let the bigger knave go loose / Who steals the common from the goose." 8. In addition to the works... | |
| Deborah Oxley - Business & Economics - 1996 - 358 pages
...lands were turned into property crimes like poaching.12 A popular ditty declared: 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." Forms of worker resistance... | |
| Paul Simon - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 440 pages
...unknown origin which tells of a danger in our society and every society: 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. One man who helped me in my last campaign, claiming to have raised more money than I believe he did,... | |
| C. G. Weeramantry - Political Science - 1998 - 698 pages
...natural order — an interference captured in the verse: The law locks up both man and woman Who steal the goose from off the common But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. In America, Thoreau, likewise, gave expression to ideas of the importance of nature, which were sweeping... | |
| Connie Robertson - Humor - 1998 - 404 pages
...eyes at me; No more spiders in my bath Trying hard to make me laugh. The law locks up both man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 176 Let's all give God a great big hand. I've... | |
| Connie Robertson - Reference - 1998 - 686 pages
...eyes at me; No more spiders in my bath Trying hard to make me laugh. 310 The law locks up both man and Հ great felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 311 Let's all give God a great big hand. I've... | |
| Stephen Hussey, Paul Thompson - Environmental sciences - 2000 - 248 pages
...the onslaught of development A case study of successful resettlement in Zapata, Texas Jaclyn Jeffrey The law condemns the man or woman who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose who steals the common from the goose. Old English folk saying1 One of the sad facts that... | |
| Peter Linebaugh, Marcus Rediker - Capitalism - 2000 - 458 pages
...had enclosed the common lands. An anonymous ditty summed up the loss and the crime: The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. Resistance to expropriation was strong in her home... | |
| Gordon Morris Bakken, Brenda Farrington - History - 2001 - 396 pages
...on his lourney, Mills rememhered an old English rhyme that ohserved: The law locks up hoth man and woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater fefon foose Who steals the common from the goose.1 Mills noted many parallels hetween the "common"... | |
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