The Eclectic Review, Volume 18; Volume 82Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood 1845 - English literature |
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... Land forms the main source of the British direct taxation . Without going into the question as to whether , according to Hindoo and Mohammedan notions , the sovereign be absolutely proprietor of the soil , the permanent settlement of ...
... Land forms the main source of the British direct taxation . Without going into the question as to whether , according to Hindoo and Mohammedan notions , the sovereign be absolutely proprietor of the soil , the permanent settlement of ...
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... land as the principal feeder of the Exchequer . It were an act of suicidal improvidence prematurely to divest itself of so commodious and productive a source of revenue , to any extent , which may not be in excess of the fair claims and ...
... land as the principal feeder of the Exchequer . It were an act of suicidal improvidence prematurely to divest itself of so commodious and productive a source of revenue , to any extent , which may not be in excess of the fair claims and ...
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... land , and Ireland . Hindustan , as is well known , is remarkable for its crowded cities ; so different from the barren leviathan of the Russian empire , which only possesses some half dozen places , with a population above fifty ...
... land , and Ireland . Hindustan , as is well known , is remarkable for its crowded cities ; so different from the barren leviathan of the Russian empire , which only possesses some half dozen places , with a population above fifty ...
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... land . Revenge , assassination , lust , and cruelty , reign and revel . Such states degenerate into moral cancers , upon an enormous scale . Fiscal exaction ruins agriculture , and annihilates commerce . Then succeed famine , plagues ...
... land . Revenge , assassination , lust , and cruelty , reign and revel . Such states degenerate into moral cancers , upon an enormous scale . Fiscal exaction ruins agriculture , and annihilates commerce . Then succeed famine , plagues ...
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... land , than the palpable inefficiency of our means for maintaining common order . Lord Minto could make a minute to the following effect , under date of the 10th of November , 1810 : A monstrous and disorganized state of society has ex ...
... land , than the palpable inefficiency of our means for maintaining common order . Lord Minto could make a minute to the following effect , under date of the 10th of November , 1810 : A monstrous and disorganized state of society has ex ...
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Page 227 - Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when, he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?
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Page 678 - There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her Beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men ; A thousand hearts beat happily ; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell...
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Page 402 - Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead;) 2.
Page 392 - Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Page 180 - In 1609, six years after the accession of James VI. of Scotland to the throne of England as James I.