Illustrations of Taxation ...C. Fox, 1834 |
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... less to say against innovation . There was little dispute , meanwhile , on one point : that the town had always suffered from its being in the centre of a fine sporting country . The dwellings of the gentry were , almost without ...
... less to say against innovation . There was little dispute , meanwhile , on one point : that the town had always suffered from its being in the centre of a fine sporting country . The dwellings of the gentry were , almost without ...
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... less spruce in its jacket of the finest flannel , tied with blue ribbons . Did " Miss Biggs ! -do make haste , Miss Biggs ! " eried Mrs. Barton to her shopwoman . you ever see such a fine head for powder as the old gentleman has ? Quite ...
... less spruce in its jacket of the finest flannel , tied with blue ribbons . Did " Miss Biggs ! -do make haste , Miss Biggs ! " eried Mrs. Barton to her shopwoman . you ever see such a fine head for powder as the old gentleman has ? Quite ...
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... less desirable than it was ; and so I say it is a bad speculation to you . ' Tis a pity you can't take up your house , and carry it to the new road , and set it down there . " Maynard was easily convinced how clever he should be thought ...
... less desirable than it was ; and so I say it is a bad speculation to you . ' Tis a pity you can't take up your house , and carry it to the new road , and set it down there . " Maynard was easily convinced how clever he should be thought ...
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... less quick at taking a hint than he would have been if he had not been accustomed to depend much on his sisters . He was not ashamed of being excelled by them , and , in a manner , taken care of by them , they having , as he always said ...
... less quick at taking a hint than he would have been if he had not been accustomed to depend much on his sisters . He was not ashamed of being excelled by them , and , in a manner , taken care of by them , they having , as he always said ...
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... less the perfect similarity of their dress , and of the animals they rode . The glance was the very same , revealing an identity of mind . They were now side by side , and he perceived that every touch of the rein was the same . Smiles ...
... less the perfect similarity of their dress , and of the animals they rode . The glance was the very same , revealing an identity of mind . They were now side by side , and he perceived that every touch of the rein was the same . Smiles ...
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Page 62 - OLD Mother Hubbard Went to the cupboard, To get her poor dog a bone: But when she got there The cupboard was bare, And so the poor dog had none.
Page 48 - And when he comes with his carts, teams, or other carriages, to carry away his tithes, he must not suffer his horses or oxen to eat and depasture the grass growing in the grounds where the tithes arise, much less the corn there growing or cut : but...
Page 49 - And if the owner of the soil, after he has duly set forth his tithes, will stop up the ways, and not suffer the parson to carry away his tithes, or to spread, dry, and stack them upon the land ; this is no good setting forth of his tithes without fraud within the statute : but the parson may have an action upon the said statute, and may recover the treble value ; or may have an action upon the case for such disturbance ; or he may, if he will, break open the gate or fence which hinders him, and carry...
Page 48 - ... person carry away his corn or hay, or his other predial tithes, before the tithe thereof be set forth, or willingly withdraw his tithes of the same, or of such other things whereof predial tithes ought to be paid ; or do stop or let the parson, vicar, proprietor, owner, or other their deputies or farmers, to view, take and carry away their tithes as is...
Page 139 - ... clergy in opposition to each other; and has done more to paralyze their exertions, and to deprive them of the esteem of their parishioners, than all the efforts of all the infidels and sectaries that ever existed. In the emphatic language of Mr Grattan, 'it has made the clergyman's income to fall with his virtues, and to rise with his bad qualities; just as it has made the parishioner to lose by being ingenuous, and to save by dishonesty.
Page 28 - Cur': 1 cannot fee but that Turkies are Birds as tame as Hens or other Poultry, and therefore muft pay Tithes ; it is true, if Tithes be once paid of the...
Page 58 - Mixt tithes were those which arise, not immediately from the ground, but from things immediately nourished by the ground, as by means of goods depastured thereupon, or otherwise nourished with the fruits thereof; as colts, calves, lambs, chicken, milk, cheese, eggs.
Page 49 - But in this he must be cautious that he commit no riot, nor break any gate, rails, lock, or hedges, more than necessarily he must for his passage.
Page 72 - In these cases, it is held, and we think this is the true view of the law on this subject, that whether the articles sued for, were necessaries or not, is a question of fact, to be submitted to a jury, unless in a very clear case, when a judge would be warranted in directing a jury authoritatively, that some articles, as for instance, diamonds or race-horses, cannot be necessaries for any minor.
Page 49 - ... but the parson may have an action upon the said statute, and may recover the treble value ; or may have an action upon the case for such disturbance, as it seemeth ; or he may, if he •will, break open the gate or fence which hinders him, and carry away his tithes.