"Private property" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... advice, and should be still more obliged if, in your zeal for your duty, you would not forget that the ground on which you stand is not public, but private property, and that strange horses are only allowed to exercise thereon by the consent of the proprietor, which, so far as I know, you have ...
— Debit and Credit - Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag • Gustav Freytag
... Meneval, the governor, to surrender. The fort, though garrisoned by about seventy soldiers, was scarcely in condition to repel an assault; and Meneval yielded without resistance, first stipulating, according to French accounts, that private property should be respected, the church left untouched, and the troops sent to Quebec or to France. [Footnote: Relation de la Prise du Port Royal, par les Anglois de Baston, piece anonyme, 27 Mai, 1690.] It was found, however, that during the parley a quantity of goods, belonging partly to the king ...
— Count Frontenac and New France under Louis XIV • Francis Parkman
... Bishop of Jerusalem, the opportunity was given. The king offered two small houses in Jerusalem that were his private property, and volunteered to pay the expenses of the journey. Associations were formed in all parts of Germany to provide an outfit for the mission. Gifts flowed in rapidly, and March 17, 1851, Fliedner, accompanied by four deaconesses, two ...
— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft
... Provincial wrote: 'Ye French keep possession yet, and we are forsed to stand at their Dores to gard them.' Another sympathetic chronicler, after pouring out the vials of his wrath on the clause which guaranteed the protection of French private property, lamented that 'by these means the poor souldiers lost all their hopes and just demerit ...
— The Great Fortress - A Chronicle of Louisbourg 1720-1760 • William Wood
... grain of powder, the gallant garrison were forced to capitulate. Schomberg was too glad to get the place to insist on hard terms, and the garrison marched out with all the honours of war—drums beating, and matches alight—and were conveyed, with all their stores, arms, and public and private property, ...
— Orange and Green - A Tale of the Boyne and Limerick • G. A. Henty
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