Illustrations of Taxation ...C. Fox, 1834 |
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... Anne and Sarah had not been on the watch to guard against his carelessness . It was indeed a pity that they were absent now . George was so busy forming friendships with the dogs that his father's coughs and winks were disregarded ; and ...
... Anne and Sarah had not been on the watch to guard against his carelessness . It was indeed a pity that they were absent now . George was so busy forming friendships with the dogs that his father's coughs and winks were disregarded ; and ...
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... Anne has begun to load her's , you see , " " So her name is Anne . What is your's ? Sarah ? Very well ; I shall know Anne from Sarah by her having a load on her pack - saddle . Pray do your parents know you from each other ? " " Dear ...
... Anne has begun to load her's , you see , " " So her name is Anne . What is your's ? Sarah ? Very well ; I shall know Anne from Sarah by her having a load on her pack - saddle . Pray do your parents know you from each other ? " " Dear ...
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... Anne , do you stay with me , and let the empty saddle go down the lane . " Left alone with Anne , the gentleman began to animate her with praises of her native district . She agreed that it was a pretty part to ride în for pleasure ...
... Anne , do you stay with me , and let the empty saddle go down the lane . " Left alone with Anne , the gentleman began to animate her with praises of her native district . She agreed that it was a pretty part to ride în for pleasure ...
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... Anne ; " she was eighteen last July . Do you think she will be married to - day , sir ? I think she might have told us , however . 99 “ You had better ride on with me , and take her by surprise . Come , give your pony the switch a ...
... Anne ; " she was eighteen last July . Do you think she will be married to - day , sir ? I think she might have told us , however . 99 “ You had better ride on with me , and take her by surprise . Come , give your pony the switch a ...
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... Anne looked heated by her violent exercise , Sarah was not less so through fear and resentment . Both glanced away from him ; neither would turn the head when he spoke . The tendency to ponder the ground was rather the strongest in Anne ...
... Anne looked heated by her violent exercise , Sarah was not less so through fear and resentment . Both glanced away from him ; neither would turn the head when he spoke . The tendency to ponder the ground was rather the strongest in Anne ...
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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.