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The swift motion, the graceful agility, the smiling face of Otasite, for it was a matter of the extremest exaction in the Indian games that however strenuous the exertion and tense the strain upon the nerves and grievous the mischances of the sport, the utmost placidity of manner and temper must be preserved throughout, all appealed freshly to the trader, although it was a long-accustomed sight.
In lieu of the arbitrary exaction of county cess so grossly abused by his predecessor the shires of the Pale were to pay for the future into the Treasury of Dublin a composition of 2,100 pounds per annum, out of which the fixed sum of 1,000 pounds was allowed as the Deputy's wages. Russell's administration lasted till May, 1597.
That this concession also was sought by the bishop on the plea of protection for his dependents from oppression and exaction, does not diminish its importance; for it is easy to see that the line which separates recognized right of protection from recognized right of jurisdiction is one easily effaced, and defense from the tyranny of a foreign power can with little difficulty be transformed into domination by the professed defender.
The incidental violence, which aroused attention and wrath, differed in nothing but circumstance from the procedure when an unresisting merchant vessel was deprived of men. In both cases there was the forcible exaction of a disputed claim.
To this commission the Consuls, or rather Bonaparte for his will soon dominated that of Sieyès proposed two most salutary changes. He desired to put an end to the seizure of hostages from villages suspected of royalism; and also to the exaction of taxes levied on a progressive scale, which harassed the wealthy without proportionately benefiting the exchequer.
Every husbandman, for example, paid the seventh part of the produce of his fields to his sovereign; his flocks even were not exempted from this exaction. The royal domain comprised numerous valuable farms; and, as agriculture was carried to the highest degree of perfection, the revenues from these, in so luxuriant a country, must have amounted to a very large sum.
At that time the last days of October, 1918 I do not believe that any responsible statesman had in mind the exaction from Germany of an indemnity for the general costs of the war. What damages, then, can be claimed from the enemy on a strict interpretation of our engagements? In the case of the United Kingdom the bill would cover the following items:
Domingo, and in all the other countries discovered by Columbus, was done completely in six or eight years, and when, in order to find more, it had become necessary to dig for it in the mines, there was no longer any possibility of paying this tax. The rigorous exaction of it, accordingly, first occasioned, it is said, the total abandoning of the mines of St.
"Of course I should act under your orders," I said; "but at least you might be sure that I would not commit you to any to any " I paused for a word. "Act of oppression," he said, with a smile "piece of cruelty, exaction there are half-a-dozen words " "Sir " I cried. "Stop, Phil, and let us understand each other. I hope I have always been a just man.
"Well, we will consider," replied the King; "but at least thou hast reached the extremity of your Duke's unreasonable exaction? there can remain nothing or if there does, for so thy brow intimates what is it what indeed can it be unless it be my crown? which these previous demands, if granted, will deprive of all its lustre?"
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