An Old Man's Thoughts about Many ThingsBell and Daldy, 1872 - 379 páginas |
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... suppose , whom the Roman censor Metellus Numidicus ad- dressed , when he said : " If we could do without wives , my fellow citizens , we should all save our- selves that trouble , but since nature has so ar- ranged it that there is no ...
... suppose , whom the Roman censor Metellus Numidicus ad- dressed , when he said : " If we could do without wives , my fellow citizens , we should all save our- selves that trouble , but since nature has so ar- ranged it that there is no ...
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... suppose then my young gentleman already introduced on the stage , for we know on good authority that all the world's a stage , but I do not intend to look after him particularly till he is breeched and sent to school . What an infinite ...
... suppose then my young gentleman already introduced on the stage , for we know on good authority that all the world's a stage , but I do not intend to look after him particularly till he is breeched and sent to school . What an infinite ...
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... suppose that if a man goes to the cost of taking a house , hiring servants , marry- ing a wife and paying for marriage settlements and so forth , and then begets children , for which purpose he has gone through all this trouble , he ...
... suppose that if a man goes to the cost of taking a house , hiring servants , marry- ing a wife and paying for marriage settlements and so forth , and then begets children , for which purpose he has gone through all this trouble , he ...
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... suppose that my boy when he goes to school will belong to a volun- teer corps , be properly drilled and in due time arrive at rifle practice . Telling the truth should be certainly taught , and if this is done , the great question ...
... suppose that my boy when he goes to school will belong to a volun- teer corps , be properly drilled and in due time arrive at rifle practice . Telling the truth should be certainly taught , and if this is done , the great question ...
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... suppose , and a great deal more than even those people imagine who have ac- quired some practical facility in them without understanding the principles by which they work . If to this we add the reading of a few easy books adapted to a ...
... suppose , and a great deal more than even those people imagine who have ac- quired some practical facility in them without understanding the principles by which they work . If to this we add the reading of a few easy books adapted to a ...
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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?