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The old man died; the will was read; and Philip succeeded to a rental of L20,000. a-year; Robert, to a diamond ring, a gold repeater, L5,000. and a curious collection of bottled snakes. "Stay, delightful Dream; Let him within his pleasant garden walk; Give him her arm of blessings let them talk." "There, Robert, there! now you can see the new stables.
Upon these hills some of the principal people have country houses, which they visit once a-year; and one was begun for the governor, upon the plan of Blenheim, the famous seat of the Duke of Marlborough in Oxfordshire, but it has never been finished.
I met only the other day a most intelligent gentleman from the north of Scotland, and he told me that the minister of the church he frequented had 250l. a-year from the Establishment Funds, which he thought very much too little, and he felt certain that, if the Establishment were abolished, and the Church made into a Free Church, the salary of the minister would be immediately advanced to at least 500l. a- year.
As to starvation, we could ensure you some hundreds a-year to starve upon, even in the beginning I dare say, Mr. Warden. 'Hundreds, said the client. 'And I have spent thousands! 'That, retorted Mr. Snitchey, putting the papers slowly back into the cast-iron box, 'there is no doubt about. No doubt about, he repeated to himself, as he thoughtfully pursued his occupation.
The tax undoubtedly pinches severely men of small and uncertain incomes, who are striving, on slender means, to maintain a respectable station in society; the man who, with a large family to be supported and educated, and who moves in a respectable sphere of society, has to pay his L.9 or L.12 out of his precarious L.300 or L.400 a-year, is an object of most earnest sympathy.
'You a nursery governess! cried Bessie, 'you who are at the top of every class, and who do everything better than the masters who teach you? 'Well, if my perfection prove worth seventy pounds a-year when I go out into the world, I shall be satisfied, said Ida. 'What will you buy with your five pounds? asked Bessie.
Howard, that the water might be dissipated by boiling the syrup in a vacuum or place from which air was excluded, and therefore at a low temperature. This was done accordingly; and the saving of sugar and the improvement of quality were such as to make the patent right, which secured the emoluments of the process to him and other parties, worth many thousand pounds a-year.
It will probably be considered, that in many desolate parts, there may not be always a sufficient number of persons considerable enough to be trusted with commissions of the peace, which several of the Clergy now supply much better, than a little, hedge, contemptible, illiterate vicar from twenty to fifty pounds a-year, the son of a weaver, pedlar, tailor, or miller, can be presumed to do.
The Labour-rate Act got rid of that evident hardship, and charged the landlord with half the rate for tenements or holdings over £4 a-year, and with the whole rate for holdings under that annual rent.
May, the Privy-purse, hath been heard to say that 300l. a-year is enough for any country-gentleman; which makes them mad, and they do talk of 6 or 800,000l. gone into the Privy-purse this war, when in King James's time it arose but to 5000l., and in King Charles's but 10,000l. in a year. He tells me a little more of the basenesse of the courses taken at Court in the case of Mr.
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