 IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing...  A Few Lectures on Natural Law - Page 58by Henry St. George Tucker - 1844 - 128 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...POPE. Etsay en Man, epist. iv. v : ' 'i ..•. .*.. \..'!.* RICH AND POOR. •l. . : • • • IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn;...taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you shall see ninety-nine of them gathering all they get into a heap ; reserving nothing for, themselves,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1834 - 894 pages
...Doctor PALEY, n prophet of your own, begins his first chapter on the Rights of Property thus : " If you see a flock of pigeons in a " field of corn, and if...more) you should see ninety-nine " of them gathering nil they got into a " heap, reserving nothing for themselves " but tlie chaff and the refuse ; keeping... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1806 - 502 pages
...little. \ .Relative Duties* PART L OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE. CHAPTER i. OF PROPERTY^ IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...(instead of each picking where, and what it liked, takmg just as much as it wanted and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they... | |
 | William Paley, William Hamilton Reid - Theology - 1810 - 350 pages
...far as this hypothesis may be accepted, the ground of the difficulty is oone away. Of Property. If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps... | |
 | William Paley - Ethics - 1811 - 412 pages
...III. RELATIVE DUTIES. PART I. OF RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE. CHAPTER I. OF PROPERTY. IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...gathering all they got, into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaif and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps... | |
 | William Paley - Theology - 1811 - 540 pages
...III. RELATIVE DUTIES. PART I. OP RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE. CHAPTER I. OF PROPERTY. IF you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1822 - 594 pages
...to represent thia first aspect of society, in a more lively manner than has been done by Paley. " If you should see a flock of pigeons in -a field of corn...each picking where and what it liked, taking just aa much as it wanted, and no more,) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into... | |
 | Thomas Reid - Ireland - 1823 - 456 pages
...handful who form the flock of the established pastors. " If," says the judicious and pious Paley, " you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves but the chaff and the refuse... | |
 | William Paley - 1823 - 476 pages
...III. RELATIVE DUTIES. PART I. Of RELATIVE DUTIES WHICH ARE DETERMINATE. CHAPTER I. Of propmy, IP vuu should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn :...taking just as much as it wanted, and no more.) you vhould see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves... | |
 | Thomas Brown - Philosophy - 1824 - 514 pages
...to represent this first aspect of society, in a more lively manner than has been done by Paley. " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn...gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves, but the chaff and the refuse ; keeping this heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps... | |
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