I have contemplated the imprisonment of the offender, rather than the seizure of his goods--though both will serve the same purpose--because they who assert the purest right, and consequently are most dangerous to a corrupt State, commonly have not spent much time in accumulating
property.
Now all the
property of my old master, slaves included, was in the hands of strangers,--strangers who had had nothing to do with accumulating it.
While Miss Skiffins was taking off her bonnet (she retained her green gloves during the evening as an outward and visible sign that there was company), Wemmick invited me to take a walk with him round the
property, and see how the island looked in wintertime.
Those who hold and those who are without
property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
It has agglomerated production, and has concentrated
property in a few hands.
Nevertheless a prince ought to inspire fear in such a way that, if he does not win love, he avoids hatred; because he can endure very well being feared whilst he is not hated, which will always be as long as he abstains from the
property of his citizens and subjects and from their women.
Again, in the case of contraries, it is possible that there should be changes from either into the other, while the subject retains its identity, unless indeed one of the contraries is a constitutive
property of that subject, as heat is of fire.
Socialism, Communism, or whatever one chooses to call it, by converting private
property into public wealth, and substituting co-operation for competition, will restore society to its proper condition of a thoroughly healthy organism, and insure the material well-being of each member of the community.
Or rather, it may be presumed, that bearing in mind the wholesale forays made upon them by their nautical visitors, they consider the
property of the latter as a fair object of reprisal.
This was done accordingly, and the
property and crew were removed to Owyhee.
Mr Hayter had some
property of his own, but it was insignificant compared with Mr Musgrove's; and while the Musgroves were in the first class of society in the country, the young Hayters would, from their parents' inferior, retired, and unpolished way of living, and their own defective education, have been hardly in any class at all, but for their connexion with Uppercross, this eldest son of course excepted, who had chosen to be a scholar and a gentleman, and who was very superior in cultivation and manners to all the rest.
I think that, for all reasons, you would do well to buy the
property and to have the conveyance settled at once.
