Cobden, for example-to go no farther-was a lifelong advocate of a national system of education; he was a friend of factory legislation for women and children, and, with respect to the poor, he taught in one of his speeches the semi-socialistic doctrine that the poor had the first right to maintenance from the land-that they are, as it were, the first mortgagees.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
That mighty door was not worn out, for it was not three hundred years old yet, and therefore scarcely in middle life; but the mortgagees who had sacked the place of all that was worth a sack to hold it, these had a very fine offer for that door, from a rich man come out of a dust-bin.
"Springhaven A Tale of the Great War"
R. D. Blackmore
Indeed, things had gone so far by his time that the Strachey estates had actually passed to the mortgagees in discharge of a sum of twelve thousand pounds.
"The Adventure of Living"
John St. Loe Strachey
