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But on this occasion extra and substantial food meat, bread, tea, coffee, and cocoa were provided by the Department at its own cost, besides which the men were liberally and deservedly remunerated for the whole severe and extra duty. It chanced that Phil Maylands and Peter Pax retired from the battle about the same time; and met in the sorters' kitchen.
Dunn received £750, as a judge of the King's Bench, £100 for his services as administrator of the government, a pension of £500 sterling a year, on relinquishing the administration, and an additional allowance of £1,500 a year while he had administered the government. Beyond question their "Excellencies" and "His Honor," were amply remunerated.
Traders always prefer giving credit on gunpowder, flints, lead, knives, tomahawks, hoes, domestic cottons, etc.; which they do at the rate of 300 or 400 per cent, and if one-fourth of the price of these articles be paid, he is amply remunerated. Nor were these the final injustices and infamies heaped upon the untutored aborigines.
His concordat was the work of a real psychologist, who knew that moral forces do not use violence, and the great danger of persecuting such. While conciliating the clergy he contrived to place them under his own domination. The bishops were to be appointed and remunerated by the State, so that he would still be master.
About the same time Dryden, whose reputation was then in the zenith, received thirteen hundred pounds for his translation of all the works of Virgil, and was thought to have been splendidly remunerated. It was not easy to fill satisfactorily the high place which Tillotson had left vacant.
"The Council will take that at its proper value," announced the commandant. Fandor was asking himself how he was going to get out of a position that was growing worse, and that in a very curious way! The commandant's next question struck a shrewd blow at the accused. "Fandor How about those accomplices you refuse to name?... Have they not remunerated you for your pains?"
However, it was, at least, an honorable independence, poorly remunerated though it was, and she went to work with a will. Her first boarding place was at the house of an aged couple, by the name of Wynn, who lived a short distance from the school house. Their appearance struck her as extremely peculiar. Mrs. Wynn's tall, stooping figure, spoke plainly of a hard, laborious life.
Replying to which letter, Vasari said that, finding himself very well placed in the service of the Duke, and remunerated for his labours with rewards different from those that he had received from other Pontiffs in Rome, he intended to remain in the service of his Excellency, for whom he was at that very time to set his hand to a hall much greater than the Hall of Kings; and that there was no want in Rome of men who might be employed in that work.
It seems to be the Englishman's purse alone that commands a certain interested assiduity, which they take care shall be amply remunerated. The port of Calais presented no appearance of activity, the transports which filled it on my first arrival having long disappeared.
Sixthly, To institute a national executive, to be chosen periodically, liberally remunerated, and to be ineligible to a second official term.
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