 | William Hazlitt - 1810
....an encroachment upon property. Wit, my lords, is a sort of property ; it is the property of those that have it, and too often the only property they...indeed, but a precarious dependence. Thank God ! we, ray lords, have a dependence of another kind; we have a much ItbS precarious support, and therefore... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816
...therefore, I must look upon the bill as a most dangerous encroachment upon liberty in general. those that have it, and too often the only property they...have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support, and therefore cannot feel the inconveniences of the bill now before us : but... | |
 | William Henry Pyne - 1824
...scarce a commodity as wit" — " Wit," continues Lord Chesterfield, " is a sort of property of those that have it, and too often the only property they...we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind." Mr. Foote had in this moment not only alarmed the treasury of the royal theatres ; but, from his mimickry,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1832
...an encroachment on property. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! my Lords, we have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron, Thomas Moore - 1832
...an encroachment on property. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! my Lords, we have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836
...is a sort of property of those that have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support, and, therefore, cannot feel the inconveniences of the bill now before us ;... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836
...liberty, but it is likewise an encroachment upon property. " Wit, my lords, is a sort of property of those that have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! we, my lords, have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
 | George Gordon Byron Baron Byron - 1836
...an encroachment on property. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! my Lords, we have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
 | Cambridge Garrick club - 1836 - 287 sider
...an encroachment on property. Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God ! my Lords, we have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
 | George Gordon N. Byron (6th baron.) - 1837
...an encroachmeut on property. Wit, my Lord*, ie a sort of property : it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. Thank God! my Lords, we have a dependence of another kind ; we have a much less precarious support,... | |
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Wit, my Lords, is a sort of property; it is the property of those who have it, and too often the only property they have to depend on. It is indeed but a precarious dependence. Thank God! we, my Lords, have a dependence of another kind... 
