 | Electronic journals - 1912 - 666 pages
...myself upon the knees Of Doom, and take mine everlasting ease. JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT. The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the...greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. FFH [Other versions are supplied at 7 S. vi. 469; vii. 98 ; 8 S. x. 273 ; but the authorship... | |
 | 1910 - 728 pages
...people from time immemorial. We all know the old rhyme decrying the iniquitv of the law which Punishes the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common ; But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose. I had always thought of a common,... | |
 | Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society - Natural history - 1884 - 820 pages
...152. all interests and affections." In fact, they would exclaim with Hudibras : " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose, Who iteals the common from the goose ! " Dugdale very ingeniously argues,... | |
 | Almon Gunnison - Overland journeys to the Pacific - 1883 - 262 pages
...of hoodlum feeling as we listen without protest to this old saw that our horse repeats to us : — " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose." Of course we will not countenance... | |
 | Charles Wicksteed - 1885 - 144 pages
...they have been robbed of the land and is well expressed in the homely lines : — " The law condemns the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose." This rhyme does not go far enough,... | |
 | Terence Vincent Powderly - Knights of labor - 1889 - 742 pages
...party to the plundering •of a people of the inheritance ordained for them by God. "The Law condemns the man or woman. Who steals the goose from off the Common; But lets the greater felon loose, Who steals the Common from the goose." God hasten the day when the "... | |
 | Charles Haddon Spurgeon - Proverbs - 1889 - 358 pages
...something is done to save our commons from enclosers. Well is it said : — ' ' The law is hard on man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater sinner loose Who steals the common from the goose." A gossip and a liar are as like... | |
 | Peter Rylands - 1890 - 420 pages
...from the poor by enclosure on the part of the rich. You recollect those old lines : — We prosecute the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But leases the greater felon loose Who steals the common from the goose. I go further, gentlemen. When... | |
 | Douglas Campbell - England - 1892 - 582 pages
...It was in reference to this wholesale robbery of the poor that the well-known lines were written : " The law locks up the man or woman Who steals the goose from off the common, But lets the greater villain loose Who steals the common off the goose." In view of these facts, we can... | |
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The Law locks up The man or woman Who steals the goose From off the common But leaves the greater villain loose Who steals the common from the goose... 
