 | 1912 - 666 Seiten
...myself upon the knees Of Doom, and take mine everlasting ease. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. The law condemns 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. FFH [Other versions are supplied... | |
 | 1910 - 728 Seiten
...people from time immemorial. We all know the old rhyme decrying the iniquitv of the law which Punishes the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the...villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. I had always thought of a common, English or Irish, as a dull and uninteresting strip of land, more... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - 1884 - 820 Seiten
...152. all interests and affections." In fact, they would exclaim with Hudibras : " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, Who iteals the common from the goose ! " Dugdale very ingeniously argues, with regard... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 938 Seiten
...been the work of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. "The law condemns 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." — Hudibra-i. For whose advantage, and at what... | |
 | Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art - 1876 - 934 Seiten
...been the work of the wretched convicts in the prisons at Prince Town. " The law condemns 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." — Hitdibras. Therefore it would appear that the... | |
 | Charles Wicksteed - 1885 - 144 Seiten
...they have been robbed of the land and is well expressed in the homely lines : — " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." This rhyme does not go far enough, however, for... | |
 | Terence Vincent Powderly - 1889 - 742 Seiten
...party to the plundering •of a people of the inheritance ordained for them by God. "The Law condemns the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the Common; But lets the greater felon loose, Who steals the Common from the goose." God hasten the day when the " greater felon " will... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - 1889 - 358 Seiten
...something is done to save our commons from enclosers. Well is it said : — ' ' The law is hard on man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater sinner loose Who steals the common from the goose." A gossip and a liar are as like as two peas. A... | |
 | Peter Rylands - 1890 - 420 Seiten
...from the poor by enclosure on the part of the rich. You recollect those old lines : — We prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leases the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. I go further, gentlemen. When... | |
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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. 
