The community's institutional furniture of this kind is of immediate consequence only to the propertied classes, and in proportion as they are propertied; that is to say, in proportion as they are to be ranked with the leisure class.
Indirectly their economic office may, of course, be of the utmost importance to the economic life process; and it is by no means here intended to depreciate the economic function of the propertied class or of the captains of industry.
It is curious to note that the demand which is now being raised by some Trade Unionists on behalf of labour is similar in principle to that which was used for centuries by the propertied classes against labour.
His idea was that Government should and would always be in the hands of the propertied and educated classes; that Parliament should consist of country gentlemen and professional men from the towns, elected on a narrow franchise.
It had all the instincts and the prejudices, but also all the qualities and the capacities, of an educated propertied class, and it brought great local knowledge and experience to its task.
With the lapse of years the number of planters increased, partly through the division of estates, partly through the immigration of propertied Englishmen, and partly through the rise of exceptional yeomen to the planting estate.
There may be cases of oppression, of violence, and of punishments, though they are rare, the aim of which is not to secure the privileges of the propertied classes.
Multitudes of the small propertied classes, of farmers, of police, of militiamen, and of others would immediately rush to the defense of society in the time of such peril.
But for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capitals.
But for this the propertied classes must sacrifice their capital.
This made all propertied men anxious and they united behind Bolingbroke in taking up arms against Richard.
The propertied classes turned a blind eye to the predicament of the poor, opining that they were idle or could save more and did not need higher earnings.
The average young girl of the propertied classes is trained for marriage as for any other business.
Nowadays it is the propertied class which has taken possession of the powers of government, and which presumes to censor the thinking of mankind in its own interest.
The landlords and propertied classes of England were willing to restrict the power of the king, and to give the vote to the educated and well-to-do; but from the time of Jack Cade to our own they shoot down the poor.
The third factor is the state of mind of the propertied classes, the amount of resistance they are willing to make to social change.
The propertied classes is at the mercy of the thriftless classes," he remarked, with martyr-pride.
Plaatje became politically active in the "native congress" movement which represented the interests of educated and propertied Africans all over South Africa.
Like other educated Africans he came out of the war optimistic that the British would enfranchise all educated and propertied males in the defeated Boer colonies (Transvaal and Orange Free State) without regard to race.
Ive just come to the period when the propertied classes refused to get married and went in for marriage settlements instead.
A certain aggressive radicalism against the ruling and propertied classes followed almost naturally from my circumstances.
The Conservative Party has always stood quite definitely for the established propertied interests.
The sons of our "propertied and cultured classes" not infrequently consider it their right to seduce the daughters of the poor and then to forsake them.
Our common law is founded on the Roman law, which considers the human being solely in his quality as a propertied being.
But the propertied and cultured classes do not venture even to-day, openly to avow the principles of George Sand, altho they actually live in accordance with them.
The ruling classes were far more willing to abandon the patriarchal superiority of the common man over his working wife, than that of the man from their own ranks over his propertied wife.
The Propertiedand Propertyless Classes in Austria.
The money marriages, so prevalent among our propertied classes, are nothing more than marriage by purchase.
These are, besides thepropertied class, the hierarchy of church and state, who all unite in the common task of protecting their interests.
From now on the chasm between the propertied and the non-propertied classes was rapidly and tremendously widened.
The masses become propertyless and are obliged to earn their share of food by serving the propertied class.
In the course of time the propertied members made common cause against the propertyless ones.
It is certain that a strenuous mental activity has a repressing influence on the sexual impulse, but it cannot be claimed that such activity is carried on by a majority of our propertied class.
Its direction naturally was assumed by those who had the greatest interest in its founding and who, thanks to their social power, were most influential: ~the propertied classes~.
Accumulation of great wealth points to the opposite extreme of wage-slavery, oppression of the masses by the system of production, rule of the masses by the propertied minority, and all the resulting evils.
Among Pitt's papers is a curious estimate of the opinion of the propertied classes in the counties and chief towns of Ireland.
He conceived the Constitution and the Union as a valley of peace and plenty which had to be fortified against the marauders by the heavy ramparts of borrowed money and the big guns of a propertied interest.
The respectable propertied bourgeois, the man of law and order, will, it is true, probably condemn these outrages in an academic way, but there is an undernote of hesitancy which damps down the fire of his indignation.
Now what attitude does the reader suppose “public opinion” of the propertied classes would adopt towards the miscreants who were responsible for these acts?
Such were the laws made by the propertied classes.
Practically the whole propertied class did it, not merely once, but so continually that year after year official reports adverted to the fact.
In one State after another, the propertied class were driven, after a prolonged struggle, to grant citizens a vote, whether they had property or not.
Propertied men, it was preached and admonished, represented the worth, stability, virtue and intelligence of the community.
As time passes, and the power of the propertied oligarchy becomes greater and greater, more and more of a studied attempt is made to represent the origin of that property as the product of honest toil and great public service.
While the worker was unorganized, unconscious of what his interests demanded, deluded by slogans and rallying-cries which really meant nothing to him, the propertiedclass was alert in its own interests.
But, how, in a Government theoretically democratic and resting on popular suffrage, did the propertied interests get control of Government functions?
The churches professed to preach to all; yet they depended largely upon men of property for contributions; and moreover the clergy, at least the influential of them, were propertied men themselves.
In England it was an admixture of rank and property; in America, where no titles of nobility existed, it became exclusively a token of the propertied class.
It was a systematic corruption springing entirely from the propertied classes; they demanded it, were responsible for it and kept it up.
All that is necessary to do is to make the laws, and so guide things that the officials who enforce the laws are responsive to the interests of the propertied classes.
These agencies of influencing the body politic were indirectly controlled by the propertied interests in one form or another.
Substantially the whole propertiedclass obtained its wealth by methods which, if not the same, had a strong relationship.
Naturally, he ascribed the excesses of the workers to provocation by the propertied classes.
Shliapnikov wrote: The propertied classes are endeavoring to create anarchy and the ruin of industry by provoking the workmen to excesses and violence over the question of foremen, technicians, and engineers.
That “proletarian consciousness” upon which the Bolsheviki based their faith must have been sadly lacking in the workers if, at such a time, they were susceptible to the influence of the “propertied classes.
The increasing luxury and refinements of civilization in Italy had begun to undermine the military spirit among the Romans, especially the propertied classes, and this had led to a decline of discipline and efficiency in the Roman armies.
Consequently there developed a community of interest between the Senate and the propertied classes among the Roman allies.
The apprehension of an anarchical revolution was universal among the propertied classes.
The moderation of Caesar, well calculated even in its very semblance of excess, attained its object: the trembling anxiety of the propertied classes as to the impending anarchy was in some measure allayed.
The Farmers' Alliance, essentially a middle-class movement of the employing farmers in the South and West, was counted upon as aligned with the propertied classes.
Ever has the propertied class set itself up as the lofty guardian of morals although actuated by sordid self-interest and nothing more.
With few exceptions, the propertied classes of the North loved comfort and power too well to look tranquilly upon any move to force them to enlist.
The triangular conflict between the large and small capitalists and the trades unions now resolved into a duel between the propertied classes of all descriptions on the one hand, and, on the other, the workingmen's organizations.
The hurling of the bomb, whether done by a secret emissary, or by a sympathizer with labor, proved the lever which the propertied classes had been feverishly awaiting.
At all events, the propertied classes, in the main, secured what they wanted.
But, while lustily indulging in patriotic palaver, the propertied classes took excellent care that their own bodies should not be imperilled.
Neither the total wealth of the country, nor that portion of the total which is owned directly by the propertied class is of most immediate moment.
England is rapidly developing the former Irish grievance of an absenteepropertied class.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "propertied" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bourgeois; endowed; holding; landed; landholding; propertied; proprietary; substantial; worth
