A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion of food, and, in fact, has no business... Miscellaneous Writings of the Late Dr. Maginn - Seite 66von William Maginn - 1855Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| Thomas Jarrold - 1806 - 420 Seiten
...in some circumstances, not as a discretionary, but a necessary act ; — as follows : " If a child is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, he has no claim of right to... | |
| 1813 - 566 Seiten
...is recommended, (lie illustration shall be pre« seated in his own language. -• A man," he says, " who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does uot want his labour, has no claim of right to... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1813 - 540 Seiten
...system is recommended, the illustration shall be presented in his own language. ' A man,' he says, ' who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has ajust demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to... | |
| 1813 - 552 Seiten
...system is recommended, the illustration shall be presented in his own language. " A man," he says, " who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on wliioin he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour, has no claim of right... | |
| 1813 - 550 Seiten
...system is recommended, the illustration shall be presented in his own language. " A man," he says, " who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsisteuce from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society does not want his labour,... | |
| 1821 - 970 Seiten
...of all kinds, the whole train of common diseases and epi- • demies, war, plague, and famine *." " A man who is born into a world already possessed, if he cannot * Essay, vol. ip 22. f Ibid. vo '- '»• P- 17 ^. get subsistence froth his parents, on whom he has... | |
| 1878 - 1002 Seiten
...demonstration. The tone of Mr. Malthus was as merciless as his theory. Here is a specimen : •A man born into a world already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from kis parent*, and if society does not want his labour, has no claim of right to the smallest portion... | |
| Charles Bucke - 1823 - 444 Seiten
...doctrines ever broached : and it is a passage which Mr. Malthus ought immediately to cancel. — " A man, who is born into a world, already possessed, if he cannot get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a just demand, and if the society do not want his labour, has no claim of right to the... | |
| John Minter Morgan - 1830 - 276 Seiten
...and consistent writers, disposed to support the injustice of exclusive possession by the few : — " A man who is born into a world already possessed,...he cannot get subsistence from his parents, and if the society Let systems crude no more his cranium vex, Or false alarms the wearied town perplex. Cease,... | |
| Michael Thomas Sadler - 1830 - 650 Seiten
...admirably the prosopopeia of Nature is adapted to the system into which she is introduced. " A man " born into a world already possessed, if he cannot " get subsistence from his parents, on whom he has a "just demand," (but he may have none in existence,) " and if society do not want his... | |
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