Freemen

Examples

• Wherever the law allows it, and the nature of the work can afford it, therefore, he will generally prefer the service of slaves to that of freemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen? George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• A poll tax upon slaves is altogether different from a poll-tax upon freemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Middlemarch is a little backward, I admit--the freemen are a little backward. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• In the English colonies, of which the principal produce is corn, the far greater part of the work is done by freemen. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And yet, as you see, there are freemen as well as masters in such a State? Plato. The Republic.
• I suppose there must be slaves as well as freemen. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The Greek ships, on the other hand, were mostly manned by freemen fighting for their homes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

Typist: Nelda