An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... amount that a child can learn well in the first eight or ten years of his life is a mere trifle . He may learn more in a few months when he is of ripe age than he can learn even in the first fifteen years of his life . Yet the little ...
... amount that a child can learn well in the first eight or ten years of his life is a mere trifle . He may learn more in a few months when he is of ripe age than he can learn even in the first fifteen years of his life . Yet the little ...
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... amount of money and a certain position in society , as the phrase is , generally go as far as they can in the matter of expense and sometimes much further than is wise . People pay very large sums for their sons at school , but this ...
... amount of money and a certain position in society , as the phrase is , generally go as far as they can in the matter of expense and sometimes much further than is wise . People pay very large sums for their sons at school , but this ...
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... amount of improbable fiction . If this is not one of the reasons for the undoubted fact of the great feebleness of most women , I am much mistaken . I have somewhere read of a traveller who spent years in visiting different parts of the ...
... amount of improbable fiction . If this is not one of the reasons for the undoubted fact of the great feebleness of most women , I am much mistaken . I have somewhere read of a traveller who spent years in visiting different parts of the ...
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... amount of this income depends in a measure on the means of those with whom he has been accustomed to associate . So if he and his partner together cannot bring their money up to the mark , they must renounce the partnership and the ...
... amount of this income depends in a measure on the means of those with whom he has been accustomed to associate . So if he and his partner together cannot bring their money up to the mark , they must renounce the partnership and the ...
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... be expected to show great virtues ; but you must not have great and notorious vices . If you are not rich , but merely supposed to be , or to be at your ease , you will do F very well , and you will receive a certain amount OF RICHES . 65.
... be expected to show great virtues ; but you must not have great and notorious vices . If you are not rich , but merely supposed to be , or to be at your ease , you will do F very well , and you will receive a certain amount OF RICHES . 65.
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Página 350 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Página 350 - subjects of every State ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities, that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the State.
Página 346 - There is no art which one government sooner learns of another than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.
Página 302 - If any of the provinces of the British empire cannot be made to contribute towards the support of the whole empire, it is surely time that Great Britain should free herself from the expense of defending those provinces in time of war, and of supporting any part of their civil or : military establishments in time of peace, and ,' endeavour to accommodate her future views/ and designs to the real mediocrity of her circumstances.
Página 277 - That the National Religion of the country should be made the foundation of national education, which should be the first and chief thing taught to the Poor, according to the excellent Liturgy and Catechism provided by our Church for that purpose.
Página 351 - While the demand for labour and the price of provisions, therefore, remain the same, a direct tax upon the wages of labour can have no other effect than to raise them somewhat higher than the tax.
Página 264 - But when things are matter of public concern, the discipline pertaining to them must also be matter of public concern ; and we must not consider any citizen as belonging to himself, but all as belonging to the state ; for each is a part of the state, and the superintendence of each part has naturally a reference to the superintendence of the whole.
Página 208 - ... and what we ought to do and what we ought not to do, whoever came into the world without having an innate idea of them?