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Labouchere's letter of 5th of September People taxed who paid a rent of £4 a year In many cases a hardship Barren works the great blot of the Labour-rate Act Arguments against the Act Resources of the country should have been developed Panic among landowners Rev. Mr.
"It were a burning shame, it were, to put upon the young master in that way," he overheard a kind-hearted mother say, one of the tenant's wives. So he taxed Juniper with it, but the man stoutly denied it. "Dear me, sir; to think of my behaving in such a uncompromising way to any gentleman. It's only them ill-natured folks' prevarications.
The standard of work required from VA. was very stiff, and taxed the powers of even the brightest girls to the uttermost. "Her little finger's thicker than her whole body used to be, and, instead of whips, she chastises us with scorpions. I want to go and bow the knee to Baal." "Rather mixed up in your Scripture, child, but we understand your meaning," laughed Verity.
But for a time her meals were forced down her throat, a proceeding that taxed the strength of several strong arms. Why were the meals not omitted long enough to cause such a reduction of strength as to make feeding less expensive in the outlay of others' muscle?
While we are governed as we do not like, where is our liberty? We do not like taxes, we will, therefore, not be taxed: we do not like your laws, and will not obey them. "The taxes laid by our representatives, are laid, you tell us, by our own consent; but we will no longer consent to be represented.
"Pardon me, gentlemen," returned Halloway, in his usual firm but respectful tone of voice; "pardon me, if, standing on the brink of the grave as I do, I have so far forgotten the rules of military discipline as to sink for a moment the soldier in the gentleman; but to be taxed with an unworthy fabrication, and to be treated with contumely when avowing the secret of my condition, was more than human pride and human feeling could tolerate."
"And admitting him to be of noble birth," said Oliver, "he hath the manners, the face, and the outward form, as well as the heart, of a Flemish butcher she will never accept of him." "His mode of wooing, if I mistake him not," said Louis, "will render it difficult for her to make a choice." "I was far wrong indeed, when I taxed your Majesty with being over scrupulous," said the counsellor.
Once a number of Negroes rise to the point where they own and operate the most successful farms, are among the largest taxpayers in their county, are moral and intelligent, I do not believe that in many portions of the South such men need long be denied the right of saying by their votes how they prefer their property to be taxed, and who are to make and administer the laws.
Then there were the corrals with their great ten-foot walls, all built of the finest pine logs cut from the mountain forests. These corrals covered acres of ground and were capable of sheltering five thousand head of cattle without their capacity being taxed. It was an ideal place and represented a considerable fortune. Lablache noticed that the corrals were entirely empty.
As it was known that Collins was poor, and that his resources were sometimes taxed to the uttermost to enable him to bring out his paper, it was hoped that, by withholding payment for his services as reporter to the Assembly, he might be compelled to suspend publication. He was accordingly informed, when he applied for his money in the early spring of 1828, that the funds were not forthcoming.
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