The Influence of Aristocracies on the Revolutions of Nations: Considered in Relation to the Present Circumstances of the British Empire |
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acres Agrarian law amount ancient appear aristocratic party aristocratic power body bread Britain British British empire burdens cause cent century Chalmers character Christian church circumstances citizens civil classes colonies commercial consequences consumption corn corn-laws corrupt danger debt despotism distress duty earth effect empire England established Europe existence extraordinary favour fiscal foreign France French French Revolution give House of Commons House of Peers hundred important income increase individuals industry influence inhabitants interest Ireland Julius Cæsar king labour land-tax landlords laws legislative legislature liberty Lord mankind manufacturing mass ment millions mind misery monarch nation nature noble parliament patricians Peel persons political poor population possession pounds present primogeniture principle prohibition proportion public lands raised Reformation reign rent revenue Revolution Roman Scotland Sir Robert Peel society soil sovereign Spain subsistence taxation thousand throne tion vote wealth William Gladstone
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Page 187 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up ; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money : that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 17 - And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your oliveyards, even the best of them, and give them to his servants.
Page 17 - Zeboim toward the wilderness. (Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, "Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears:" but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.
Page 18 - And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot ; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself.
Page 192 - Therefore say I unto you, The kingdom of God shall be taken from you, and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof.
Page 187 - And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received tribute money came to Peter, and said, Doth not your master pay tribute ? He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute ? of their own children, or of strangers ? Peter saith unto Him, Of strangers.
Page 187 - He saith, Yes. And when he was come into the house, Jesus prevented him saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? of whom do the kings of the earth take custom or tribute? of their own children, or of strangers? Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto, him. Then are the children free.
Page 306 - And there was a great famine in Samaria : and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a cab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.
Page 291 - Secondly, taxes upon the necessaries of life have nearly the same effect upon the circumstances of the people as a poor soil and a bad climate. Provisions are thereby rendered dearer in the same manner as if it required extraordinary labour and expense to raise them.
Page 18 - Also before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man that sacrificed, "Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have sodden flesh of thee, but raw." And if any man said unto him, "Let them not fail to burn the fat presently, and then take as much as thy soul desireth;" then he would answer him, "Nay; but thou shalt give it me now : and if not, I will take it by force.