property

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Sir Joshua Reynolds observed, with great truth, that Johnson considered Garrick to be as it were his PROPERTY.

From Boswell's Life of Johnson Abridged and edited, with an introduction by Charles Grosvenor Osgood by Osgood, Charles Grosvenor

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

If we can believe Toullier: "The absolute rights can be reduced to three: SECURITY, LIBERTY, PROPERTY."

From What is Property? by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Monstrous figures frown along the gloomy avenue that, leads up to the Egyptian temple in which the divinity, PROPERTY, dwells in mysterious darkness.

From The Land-War In Ireland (1870) A History For The Times by Godkin, James

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