An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But to cut this matter short and not to do like so many who run away from their ...
... kind , and I might even tell their names , if I were spiteful enough and if I did not think more of doing good myself than exposing those who do harm . But to cut this matter short and not to do like so many who run away from their ...
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... kind will be found here . I shall not quote any learned man without looking into his book ; and as to my understanding what the book says , I trust that no reader will have got so far in this address without placing full confidence in ...
... kind will be found here . I shall not quote any learned man without looking into his book ; and as to my understanding what the book says , I trust that no reader will have got so far in this address without placing full confidence in ...
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... pleased the further he goes and very sorry when he comes to the end ; not because I have deceived him like many wicked book - makers , but because there is no more . I must warn my kind reader , for if he has TO MY READERS . 9.
... pleased the further he goes and very sorry when he comes to the end ; not because I have deceived him like many wicked book - makers , but because there is no more . I must warn my kind reader , for if he has TO MY READERS . 9.
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George Long. must warn my kind reader , for if he has read so far as this , I am sure that we are friends for ever , I say I must warn him or give him notice now that if he thinks this is not going to be a serious book , he is much ...
George Long. must warn my kind reader , for if he has read so far as this , I am sure that we are friends for ever , I say I must warn him or give him notice now that if he thinks this is not going to be a serious book , he is much ...
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... kind of food , but do not eat so much of it . I can't for my part , after long studying the question , see much difference between the impossible adven- tures of the Don's books of chivalry , and the books of many of our story - tellers ...
... kind of food , but do not eat so much of it . I can't for my part , after long studying the question , see much difference between the impossible adven- tures of the Don's books of chivalry , and the books of many of our story - tellers ...
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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?