 | Rishab Ghosh - 2006 - 370 strani
...they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back This poem (Anon 1821) is one of the... | |
 | Bruce Kapferer - 2005 - 126 strani
...OLIGARCHY (as the Dominant Form of Rule in the United States) Donald M. Nonini The Law doth punish the Man or Woman Who Steals the Goose from off the Common, But lets the greater Felon loose That steals the Common from the Goose — Anonymous eighteenth-century... | |
 | Stephen R. L. Clark - 2006 - 274 strani
...mind. 11. Ibid., p. 72. 12. By contrast with later practice, emphasized in the verse, "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" (cited in What's Wrong with the... | |
 | Sharon Beder - 2012 - 273 strani
...Power and Politics of the Hawke Era, p4. 5 From Public Service to Private Profit The Law doth punish man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. 18TH CENTURY ANTI-ENCLOSURE SAYING... | |
 | W. Noel Keyes - 2007 - 1234 strani
...stones; the torrents wash away the soil of the earth; so thou destroy 'est the hope of man. Job 14: 18-19 The law locks up 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. Old English quatrain 4. ORANGE COUNTY... | |
 | Ana Agostino, Glenn Ashton - 2006 - 246 strani
...they conspire the law to break; This must be so but they endure Those who conspire to make the law. The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common And geese will still a common lack Till they go and steal it back. - Anonymous This poem is one of... | |
 | 1883 - 1114 strani
...LAW A RESPECTER OF PERSONS. THAN that the law is no respecter of persons no greater fallacy exists. 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. Nothing could better illustrate... | |
 | 1917 - 872 strani
...The 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... | |
 | Knights of Labor - 1883 - 198 strani
...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... | |
 | 1901 - 666 strani
...the hands of Lord Rowton. We know of no edition of Disraeli's letters. NEMO.— Great is the crime in man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But who shall plead that man's excuse Who steals the common from the goose ? Authorship unknown. See 7th... | |
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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. 
