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. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
What business has an old county man to come currying favor with a low set of dark-blue freemen? 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
The Hungarian mines are wrought by freemen, who employ a great deal of machinery, by which they facilitate and abridge their own labour. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
A poll tax upon slaves is altogether different from a poll-tax upon freemen. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
Middlemarch is a little backward, I admit--the freemen are a little backward. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
In the English colonies, of which the principal produce is corn, the far greater part of the work is done by freemen. 亚当·斯密.国富论.
And yet, as you see, there are freemen as well as masters in such a State? 柏拉图.理想国.
I suppose there must be slaves as well as freemen. 弗格斯·休姆.奇幻岛.
The Greek ships, on the other hand, were mostly manned by freemen fighting for their homes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.