...with their employers in supporting schools for the education of their children, and in establ,shing the means of cheerful and instructive intercourse...evil resembling the neglect of a parent to train up a child in the way in which he should go, and implies the neglect of an obligation similar in character...

...thumb-screw, or racking the vassal, or extracting Jews' teeth in a baronial dungeon, but the principle that ' property has its duties as well as its rights,' and that the master of the soil should stand to his tenants as much as possible in a fatherly, and almost a...

...trade of the district, which will be prosperous in proportion as capital is secure, and the laL bourers are skilful, intelligent, steady, and industrious....neglect the opportunity to promote the well-being of a dependant population, by refusing to furnish them with the means of self-improvement, is an evil resembling...

...The landowners, the lairds of Scotland, who are imbued with the spirit of moderatism, seem to forget that property has its duties as well as its rights, and that when the former are neglected, the latter are forfeited. Thus we read, that, when ground was asked,...

...Gilbart has also enforced the "moral and religious duties of public companies," and the great truths that " property has its duties as well as its rights ;" and " that companies, as well as individuals, are moral agents, with moral and religious duties to perform, ¿nd...

...secured the co-operation of the large landed proprietors, who seem now to be fully alive to the fact, that property has its duties as well as its rights, and that they are bound, not only by the highest laws of our common nature, but by the lowest principles of...

...those who are most conversant with the subject, that there are many to whom it never seems to occur that "property has its duties as well as its rights;" and that a very small amount of self-sacrifice for the necessities of others would work an amount of good which...

...undeniable right of every owner of property to set his own price on it, and it may appear far-fetched to say that property has its duties as well as its rights, and that men owe it to an honourable name to treat the literary reputation of an ancestor as something more...

...tracts from a legal mortmain. Let the purchasers remember the maxim proclaimed to their predecessors : " That property has its duties as well as its rights ;" and that the rental on old estates was usually lower than the precise Government valuation. Possession of land...

...it, because hon. Members are aware how much the Marquess of Normanby has been condemned for declaring that 'property has its duties as well as its rights;' and that it is ' the neglect of those duties in past times, which has led to much of the misery of the present...