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" 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... "
Elements of Rhetoric: Comprising an Analysis of the Laws of Moral Evidence ... - Page 131
by Richard Whately - 1846 - 351 pages
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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ...

William Minto - 1881 - 592 pages
...constitutes the first chapter of the book on ' Relative Duties,' and is headed On Property : — ' ' If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...(instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking jnst as much as it wanted, and no more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas. Vol. 1 ...

David Thomas - 1881 - 446 pages
...family on sums varying from £1 to £3 a week. Is not such monopoly a despoiling of human rights?* * " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn, and if (instead of each one picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted and no more) you should see ninety-nine...
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The rights of man and the wrongs of man, a homily for the times

David Thomas - 1881 - 72 pages
...Another external despoiler of man's rights is social chicanery. It has been said that so rife is the * " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn, and if (instead of each one picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted and no more) you should see ninety-nine...
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Fraser's Magazine, Volume 25

1842 - 780 pages
...If you should sec a flock of pigeons in I field of corn, and if (instead of etch picking wlmro nnd what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted and...more) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering nil they got into a heap, reserving nothing for themselves bat the chart" and refuse," &c. stated times—...
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The Homilist; or, The pulpit for the people, conducted by D. Thomas ..., Part 2

David Thomas - 1883 - 470 pages
...remarkable words, — "If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn, and if (instead of each one picking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted and no more) you should sec ninety-nine of them gathering all they got in a heap, reserving nothing for themselves but the...
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History of New South Wales from the Records, Volume 1

George Burnett Barton - 1889 - 756 pages
...another part of his work, in which he treats of relative dot:-* in connection with property. If, he says, you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn, ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap for one, and that the weakest, perhaps worst,...
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English Composition and Rhetoric, Part 1

Alexander Bain - 1890 - 376 pages
...diploma or official certificate, to show that a candidate for a profession has been found * ' If yon should see a flock of pigeons in a- field of corn...it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no mo_re) you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ...

William Minto - 1892 - 584 pages
...the book on 'Relative Duties,' and is headed On Property :— " If you should see a flock of pijeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each picking...liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) vou should .see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into a heap ; reserving nothing for themselves...
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A Manual of English Prose Literature: Biographical and Critical, Designed ...

William Minto - 1892 - 582 pages
...It constitutes the first chapter of the book on 'Relative Duties,' and is headed On Property : — " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of corn ; and if (instead of each [licking where and what it liked, taking just as much as it wanted, and no more) you shuuld see ninety-nine...
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King Mammon and the Heir Apparent

George A. Richardson - 1896 - 472 pages
...overflowing warehouses, are finally com1 Paley's famous pigeon comparison is not a bad picture of society. " If you should see a flock of pigeons in a field of...instead of each picking where and what it liked, taking j ust as much as it wanted and no more, you should see ninety-nine of them gathering all they got into...
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