Proprietors

Examples

• The proprietors and cultivators finally pay both the wages of all the workmen of the unproductive class, and the profits of all their employers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• After small proprietors, however, rich and great farmers are in every country the principal improvers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it so happens, that many of the principal proprietors of the sugar plantations reside in Great Britain. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the same way, not the smallest morsel of property belonging to the proprietors of the house had been abstracted. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A third cheap issue, at eighteenpence a novel, is now being published by the present proprietors, Messrs. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Those workmen and their employers are properly the servants of the proprietors and cultivators. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• To gratify the most childish vanity was the sole motive of the great proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The proprietors of land were anciently the legislators of every part of Europe. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Objection, indeed, was made by the proprietors of the canal on account of the agitation of the water, which it was feared would injure the banks. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• If little improvement was to be expected from such great proprietors, still less was to be hoped for from those who occupied the land under them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But surely the big proprietors and the rich will make a revolution against such taxes. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This court, indeed, is frequently subject, in many respects, to the control of a general court of proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Over and above all this, the moderate capital of this company is said to be divided among a very small number of proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The first is the class of the proprietors of land. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All of them were engrossed, and the greater part by a few great proprietors. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The tythe of the church is divided into such small portions that no one of its proprietors can have any interest of this kind. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The proprietors of those moors profit by it, and raise the rent of their land in proportion to the price of their cattle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Do you have no big proprietors? Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Land occupied by such tenants is properly cultivated at the expense of the proprietors, as much as that occupied by slaves. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am no loss, I am not handsome, I am not good company, I am only my proprietors grubber. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.

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