There would be no opportunity for its investment, so that at most individuals inheriting such property would be enabled to live idly, or with extra luxury, until it was spent.
The fact of inheritingproperty would not give the individual power over the life and labor of others.
His nature, inheriting the strongest proclivities to lawlessness of every shade and scope, needed but the occurrence of suitable conditions to develop into the commission of the darkest deeds.
Inheriting his father's estates in Cheshire and Ireland, Pamell was not in need.
The master was one of the Beys, also a slave inheritingfrom his master.
She was too delicate for me to allude to such a circumstance; I was willing to run all hazards of my posterity inheriting so dreadful a disease.
M77) It has generally been assumed that grandsons inheriting directly from their grandfather, all the intermediate generation being already dead, inherited none the less the shares of their respective fathers per stirpes.
They had subscribed to the first society; but they reasonably held that this did not pledge them to another, which, though inheriting the secret purposes of the first, no longer masked or disavowed them.
Inheriting from him a good estate in Aberdeenshire, and one more considerable in Jamaica, he found himself, at the close of a long minority, in the possession of a commanding fortune.
He is "essentially beneficent, but has no marked individuality, and can only have become the Greek Zeus by inheriting attributes from other deities ".
Not inheriting any of her grandfather's talent as a singer, Eleanor yet made her court a haven for troubadours.
It cannot be said that there was at any time absolute prohibition of a daughter's inheriting from her father.
It is the vulgar mind that looks down on the earning and worships the inheriting of money.
He did not rejoice in the thought of the inheritance of the saints in light, as the inheriting of the nature of God, the being made partaker of the father's essential blessedness: he was far yet from that.
He was her nearest relation, but had never had much hope of inheriting from her, and after a final quarrel put an end to their quarelling, had had none.
His wife would marry an adventurer, and would suffer worse frominheriting his fortune.
They quite look upon him as free from all the difficulties which attend a man's position as inheriting feuds, animosities, &c.
The parliament of 1572 seemed to give evidence of their inheriting the spirit of the last by choosing Mr. Bell for their speaker.
The Commons were desirous of absolutely excluding Mary from inheriting the crown, and even of taking away her life, and had prepared bills with this intent.
Judging by my observation and experience, that ill-fated baby's chance of inheriting the virtues of her parents is not to be compared with her chances of inheriting their vices; especially if she happens to take after her mother.
Born of a family of priest-physicians, and inheriting all its traditions and prejudices, Hippocrates was the first to cast superstition aside, and to base the practice of medicine on the principles of inductive philosophy.
Inheriting a large share of the riches which his father had accumulated, he squandered it soon after attaining his majority, and went to the Continent to escape from his creditors.
The convent has great hopes of inheriting her fortune.
Mary, on her accession, raked up the whole story of her mother’s marriage and divorce, and the Act of the first year of her reign recognized her as inheriting by legitimate succession.
The object of the statute is to make the King’s children and others born of English parents beyond sea capable of inheriting in England.
Inheriting his father's fortune he entered political life and became M.
This latest form of the oppression of the weak depends on the right of property, and the remedy is to transfer the right of inheriting the property of the individual from the family to the state.
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