68 Metaphors for properties

The principal property was the Park of Shu'a'us-Saltana, a magnificent place in Teheran, with a palace filled with valuable furniture.

PROPERTIES AND USES OF THE CUCURBITS.The common cucumber is the C. sativus of science, and although the whole of the family have a similar action in the animal economy, yet there are some which present us with great anomalies.

He could reason warmly, if not acutely, concerning the principles of government, and it would be difficult, even in this money-getting age, to find a more zealous convert to the opinion that property was not a subordinate, but the absorbing interest of civilized life.

The Britons were divided into many small nations or tribes; and being a military people, whose sole property was their arms and their cattle, it was impossible, after they had acquired a relish for liberty, for their princes or chieftains to establish any despotic authority over them.

afterwards the property of Madame La Princesse de Conti, now the residence of M. de Puy: at the foot is the village of Lucienne, surrounded by numerous villas: among the most remarkable is the residence of General Comte Campon.]

The haunted property would be such a capital site for a market-house!

But this property was only a small portion of the holdings of Abram McLain.

The favorite dramatic properties of such writers were the hornets' nest, the falling ladder, the banana peel.

The creditors, if they could get hold of Mountjoy when his father was dead, and when the bonds would all become payable, might possibly so unravel the facts as to make it apparent that, after all, the property was Mountjoy's.

In the fourth class, the property was twenty-five thousand asses: the same number of centuries was formed; their arms were changed, nothing being given them but a spear and a short javelin.

CONSTITUENT PROPERTIES OF THE ARTICHOKE.According to the analysis of Braconnet, the constituent elements of an artichoke are,starch 30, albumen 10, uncrystallizable sugar 148, gum 12, fixed oil 1, woody fibre 12, inorganic matter 27, and water 770.

The elder members of a family might have been girls, and, there being no boys, might have arrived at the conclusion that the property of their father might be theirs; but a boy born late in the life of their father would sweep away the delusion, and leave them to poverty.

The life of society, however, includes various affairs, and man deals with them by different means; thus property is a mode of dealing with things.

" "When I consider that you have many claims," said John, "and consider further that your property is all land, I wonder at your" "My neglect.

Private property is the characteristic feature of our present industrial society, but it exists side by side with public property and with many intermediate grades between private and common property.

Thus, property is the very earliest legal concept expressed in statutes, just as it is perhaps the earliest notion that gets into a child's mind.

But where is the difference in principle whether the public property be in the form of arms, munitions of war, and supplies or in gold and silver or bank notes?

Muhammed was neither poor nor without possessions: at the end of his life he had become a prince and had directly stated that property was a gift from God.

A remarkable property of the diagram is a sort of elasticity which enables me to join the two ends of the horse-shoe together when I want to connect 100 with 0.

They hope, by thus taking up the occupation and assuming the appearance of farmers, to escape farther persecution; and this policy may be available to those who have little to lose: but property is now a more dangerous distinction than birth, and whoever possesses it, will always be considered as the enemies of the republic, and treated accordingly.

The only real coal property of which I have any knowledge is a quite recent discovery.

Now the property is not a million; it may be some day or other, but it isn't now.

All intrasocial property, all thoughts, inventions, and institutions, as, indeed, the social system itself, are a result of the intrasocial struggle, in which one survives and another is cast out.

He spent his time chiefly in the market-place, talking with everybody, old or young, rich or poor,soldiers, politicians, artisans, or students; visiting even Aspasia, the cultivated, wealthy courtesan, with whom he formed a friendship; so that, although he was very poor,his whole property being only five minae (about fifty dollars) a year,it would seem he lived in "good society.

Private property is a political institution designed to further social welfare, and only rarely is property in any particular business a monopoly.

68 Metaphors for  properties