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Updated: May 15, 2025
You can insure your life as against your uncle's, for a round sum say for a hundred thousand pounds. You will make over the policy to me. I shall pay the premiums, and so if anything were to happen to you I should be recouped." He never once removed his eyes from Hine's face.
In 1697 had begun the practice of leasing indirect taxes for the space of six years to contractors, the fermiers généraux. They paid in advance, and recouped themselves by grinding the taxpayer to the uttermost.
The traffic, especially the conveyance of ivory and other merchandise, would soon have recouped the Government for their original outlay. The way in which Colonel Gordon was thwarted in every possible manner at this time troubled him a good deal. "As for myself," he writes, "I am exceedingly weary, and wish, with a degree of bitterness, that it was all over.
The atrocities to which the inhabitants of Cuba have been subjected in the past two or more years aroused the indignation of the civilized world. "'Their moans, the vales redoubled to the hills, And they to Heav'n. "The financial problem, which is already commanding the serious attention of the Government, is next in order. How are the great expenditures of the war to be recouped?
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