An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... a great many authors who seem very proud of their works , is a great deal longer than their books will last . I do not fear that I am wearying my readers . I know that people can go on reading the dullest books TO MY READERS .
... a great many authors who seem very proud of their works , is a great deal longer than their books will last . I do not fear that I am wearying my readers . I know that people can go on reading the dullest books TO MY READERS .
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... deal more than is worth listening to . This mention of Marcus Aurelius leads me to make a remark which the reader ought to bear in mind all through this book , and I make it now without considering whether it comes in the right place or ...
... deal more than is worth listening to . This mention of Marcus Aurelius leads me to make a remark which the reader ought to bear in mind all through this book , and I make it now without considering whether it comes in the right place or ...
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... deal , which I can readily believe , and that it has been translated into the English tongue , which I do not deny ; but I am not going to be taken in by any recom- mendation of the translation , for I never yet met with a translation ...
... deal , which I can readily believe , and that it has been translated into the English tongue , which I do not deny ; but I am not going to be taken in by any recom- mendation of the translation , for I never yet met with a translation ...
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... deal less , or ought never to have been born , I am of opinion that Don Quixote's housekeeper should have the handling of them ; or they might go , as Horace says , into the streets where pennyworths are made up of something that ...
... deal less , or ought never to have been born , I am of opinion that Don Quixote's housekeeper should have the handling of them ; or they might go , as Horace says , into the streets where pennyworths are made up of something that ...
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... never be done again . My little book is not a novel , though it is as true as the best novel . It contains a little about a great many things , and C therein differs from those books which contain a great deal TO MY READERS . 17.
... never be done again . My little book is not a novel , though it is as true as the best novel . It contains a little about a great many things , and C therein differs from those books which contain a great deal TO MY READERS . 17.
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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?