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Still, mindful of the promise which had been extorted from him by Sully, the King hesitated; but upon being more urgently pressed by the favourite, he at length demanded what would be the probable yearly produce of the tax, when he was assured by the Count that it could not exceed ten thousand crowns; upon which Henry, who was anxious not to irritate him by a refusal where the favour solicited was so comparatively insignificant, at once signified his compliance; and as the subject had been cleverly mooted by the two interested parties at Fontainebleau, while the minister of finance was absent in the capital, Madame de Verneuil, by dint of importunity, succeeded in inducing the monarch to sign an order for the immediate imposition of the duty in favour of M. de Soissons; but before he was prevailed upon to do this, he declared to the Prince that he should withdraw his consent to the arrangement, if it were proved that the produce of the tax exceeded the yearly sum of fifty thousand francs, or that it pressed too heavily upon the people and the commercial interests of the kingdom.

The imposition of such dogmas constitutes a State Church in an older and stronger sense than any that can be applied to any supernatural Church to-day. There are still places where the religious minority is forbidden to assemble or to teach in this way or that; and yet more where it is excluded from this or that public post.

We'll go to the Kaiserin Elisabeth, and submit to any sort of imposition they've a mind to practise upon us. I shall not breathe freely, I suppose, till we get into Italy, where people mean what they say. Haw, haw, haw!" laughed the colonel, "honest Iago's the man I'm after." The doors of the waiting-room were thrown open, and cries of "Erste Klasse! Zweite Klasse!

In the house of peers this bill was strenuously opposed by the tories; and when, after long debates, it passed on the twenty-fourth day of February, ten lords entered a protest against it, as an unnecessary and severe imposition. The whole nation now seemed to join in the cry for a war with France.

The imposition of such trifles under such fearful threats was the very bitterness of spiritual pride and vindictiveness; after the law passed by which things became as they now are, it was a mere question of expediency for the National Church to determine in relation to its own comparative interests. If the Church chose unluckily, the injury has been to itself alone.

Rome, under her emperors, united the evils of both systems; and this unnatural combination was one great cause of her ruin. To tell the people that they are relieved by the dilapidation of their public estate is a cruel and insolent imposition.

She did not, in her mind, actively object, because she felt that she could not be more hopelessly miserable than she was; but she passively resented the imposition.

"I would stop the imposition, approved of custom, connived at by parents, made possible by the state of ignorance in which we are carefully kept the imposition upon a girl's innocence and inexperience of a disreputable man for a husband." Mrs.

Come, I want to get out from the trees to look for Colonel Bury's harvest moon, for I believe she is an imposition. 'No, I'm not coming. You, don't understand your duties. Your young ladies ought always to know where to find you, and you where to find them. 'Oh! Maurice, what must you have suffered before you imported Winifred to chaperon me!

These related chiefly to the imposition of tithes, the main source of revenue to the church, and an unjust burden in the eyes of the majority of the nation. The people's priest was expressly pledged by the statutes, to take care of the conscientious disposition of the tithe, and to insist upon it as a religious duty in his discourses.