property
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In speaking thus, you unconsciously argue exactly after the manner of M. Cousin, who always reasons from possession to PROPERTY.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
These are effectually secured by laws of the land, and the sovereign in this country, having no right, but by law, to any part of the subject's estate, causes that estate to be called PROPERTY.
From An Answer to a Question that Nobody thinks of, viz., But what if the Queen should Die? by Defoe, Daniel
The Declaration of Rights has placed property in its list of the natural and inalienable rights of man, four in all: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, PROPERTY, SECURITY.
From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)
Oh, mon Dieu!" she said, dropping rapidly into a different accent, with her white teeth and fixed mirthless smile, "so it is a claim for PROPERTY, eh?
From A Sappho of Green Springs by Harte, Bret
Next would I court my LIBERTY, And then my birth-right, PROPERTY; But can that be, when it is knowne, There's nothing you can call your owne?
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
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