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... carry on war , or may cultivate to more advantage , the arts of peace , when unembarraffed with hoftilities : whereas , with a fmall income , it can neither reward the fervices , nor encourage the exertions of its people ; and it muft ...
... carry on war , or may cultivate to more advantage , the arts of peace , when unembarraffed with hoftilities : whereas , with a fmall income , it can neither reward the fervices , nor encourage the exertions of its people ; and it muft ...
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... carried to fuch an excefs , as in Great Britain . From the year 1688 to the prefent time , ( A. D. 1800 , ) it has been under the neceffity of increasing its revenue from about £ . 2,000,000 to above £ .36,000,000 per Annum3 . Perhaps ...
... carried to fuch an excefs , as in Great Britain . From the year 1688 to the prefent time , ( A. D. 1800 , ) it has been under the neceffity of increasing its revenue from about £ . 2,000,000 to above £ .36,000,000 per Annum3 . Perhaps ...
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... carried on between the mother - country and the colonies , fur- nishes income and employment to many individuals in the former , who are thus better enabled to pay the burdens to which they are fubject . The wealthieft colonists are in ...
... carried on between the mother - country and the colonies , fur- nishes income and employment to many individuals in the former , who are thus better enabled to pay the burdens to which they are fubject . The wealthieft colonists are in ...
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... carry the quantity they were rated at , to any diftance how- ever great , according to the fuppofed neceffities of the ftate , or to the caprice of thofe who were in power that fo heavy a duty was laid upon cattle ( in which Britain ...
... carry the quantity they were rated at , to any diftance how- ever great , according to the fuppofed neceffities of the ftate , or to the caprice of thofe who were in power that fo heavy a duty was laid upon cattle ( in which Britain ...
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... carried into practice . 2. Lucrative Prerogatives . The prerogatives of a fovereign , are certain rights annexed to the royal dignity with which he is invefted . They are privileges entrusted to him for the common benefit of the public ...
... carried into practice . 2. Lucrative Prerogatives . The prerogatives of a fovereign , are certain rights annexed to the royal dignity with which he is invefted . They are privileges entrusted to him for the common benefit of the public ...
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Acceffion affiftance alfo alſo amount ancient anno annuities borrowed cent circumftance confequence confiderable Danegeld Edward Edward III eftates Engliſh eſtabliſhed exchequer expences faid fame fecond fecurity fervices feudal fhillings fhould fince firft firſt fome foon fources fovereign fpecie fpirit ftate fubfidies fubjects fuch fufficient fums of money fupplies fuppofed fupport furniſhed fyftem granted Henry Henry VIII Hift hiftorians hiftory himſelf Houfe houſe House of Stuart Hume impofed income increaſe intereft king kingdom laft lands lefs levied long parliament meaſure ment minifters mode moft monarch moſt muſt narchs National Debts neceffary neceffity Normans occafion paffed paid Parl parliament perfonal poffeffed poffeffion propofed Public Debts purchaſe purpoſe raifing raiſed reafon refpectable reign Revenue of England Revolution 1688 Rife and Progress royal Saxon Line South Sea Company ſtate Stuart thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion treaſure Tudor Go uſe venue vernment whofe William the Norman
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Page 211 - ... hoped that her dutiful and loving subjects would not take away her prerogative, which is the chief flower in her garden and the principal and head pearl in her crown and diadem, but that they would rather leave these matters to her disposal.
Page 390 - Eighth, and not cleared until within these two years, and all that while running upon Interest, a course able to eat up not only private men and their Patrimonies, but also Princes, and their Estates...
Page i - The History of the Public Revenue of the British Empire, containing an Account of the Public Income and Expenditure from the Remotest Periods recorded in History to Michaelmas, 1802; with an Account of the Revenue of Scotland and Ireland, &c.
Page 33 - WAIFS, bona moviola, are goods stolen, and waived or thrown away by the thief in his flight, for fear of being apprehended. These are given to the king by the law, as a punishment upon the owner, for not himself pursuing the felon, and taking away his goods from him"i. And therefore if the party robbed do his diligence immediately to follow and apprehend the thief, (which is...
Page 341 - ... dead lift, when neither her receipts could yield her relief at the pinch, nor the urgency of her affairs endure the delays of...
Page 341 - They do therefore humbly pray your most excellent majesty, that no man hereafter be compelled to make or yield any gift, loan, benevolence, tax, or such like charge, without common consent by act of parliament...
Page 484 - All the monies to arife, from time to time, " as well of the excefs, or furplus of an aft made
Page 389 - Years, at leaft, before the * Death of King Henry. VIII, and not cleared * until within thefe two Years ; and all that while * running upon Intereft; a Courfeable to eat up ' not only private Men and their Patrimonies, but...
Page 56 - The Romish Horseleech: or, An impartial Account of the intolerable Charge of Popery to this Nation...
Page 268 - ... maintained inviolate in this country. And the friends of public liberty ought ever to bear in memory the admirable vote of the Houfe of Commons, on the...