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He wanted an all-wise absolute monarch who should work the will of all his subjects, no matter how conflicting their interests might be; some millions of these subjects to think alike on every conceivable question to think, that is, as Wagner thought; these millions to make sublime sacrifice of themselves that Wagner's art-schemes might prosper.
If the Grand Monarque squandered millions to build it, France has reaped billions from the pockets of strangers who have come to look at it. And so everything that is well done brings its good.
But we keep them only for the Christians in our civil and military services; and we leave untouched the revenues of the mosques and temples. In one country alone is to be seen the spectacle of a community of eight millions of human beings, with a Church which is the Church of only eight hundred thousand.
She has money, she is clever and unprincipled, and I am convinced that she is paying in advance for future favours and position at a certain court. She " "In other words, she is financing the game up at Green Fancy." "I suppose so. She has millions, I am told. Mr. De Soto is a Spaniard, born and reared in England. All of them are known in my country."
It probably consists in producing as many children as we have breasts so that if one dies the other may live. If these two children were always faithfully produced, what would become of nations? Thirty millions of people would constitute a population too great for France, for the soil is not sufficient to guarantee more than ten millions against misery and hunger.
His hair was already streaked with silver, and seeing his emaciated, aged-looking face, no one would have believed that he was only forty. He was asleep.... In front of his bowed head there lay on the table a sheet of paper on which there was something written in fine handwriting. "Poor creature!" thought the banker, "he is asleep and most likely dreaming of the millions.
"Yes," said Ned dubiously, "if you can do it. Oh, I'll admit that your invention improves a telescope marvelously. But to see life on another world, millions of miles away well, that sounds like a pretty tall order even for you, Tom Swift!" "Let's go back in the lab and I'll tell you more about the project." Tom directed Koku to carry the telescope inside.
It has taken from the poor, from the young and from believers, 5 milliards of capital and 270 millions of revenue; it gives back to them, in public income and treasury interest, about 17 millions per annum.
The expense of these additions and improvements is estimated at four millions of francs, and they have been effected with a rapidity that is quite surprising, notwithstanding the number of public buildings in progress at the same time in Paris.
Three hundred venal and bribed souls out of so many millions!
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