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Unshaven and unshorn since he left Rome last, he joins Cinna, leading six thousand fugitives, seizes and plunders the towns about Rome, while Cinna encamps beneath the walls. Together they enter Rome and nail Octavius' head to the Rostra.
At night he enters the gardens contiguous to the houses, and plunders them of all kinds of fruits and vegetables. He even approaches still nearer abstracting their honey from the tame bees the hives of which, according to a curious custom of the hill people, are set in little indentations in the walls of their dwelling-houses.
O my lord, knowest thou not that they wink at the crime that plunders the dead? Moreover, these corpse-riflers creep stealthily and unseen, as the red earth-worms, to the carcass. Give me some few of thy men, give me warrant to search the field! My son, my boy not sixteen summers and his mother!" The man stopped, and sobbed. "Willingly!" said the gentle Hastings, "willingly!
If the State taxes him moderately, the money-lender enslaves him by means of promissory notes, and soon turns him into the simple tenant of soil belonging in reality to a financial company. The landlord, the State, and the banker thus plunders the cultivator by means of rent, taxes, and interest.
Drake's success. His deeds of cruelty. Drake's expedition in 1577. Execution of Doughty. Straits of Magellan. Drake plunders the Spaniards. Chase of the Cacofogo. Drake captures her. Drake's escape by going round the world. Character of Drake. Philip demands the treasure. Alarming news. Elizabeth's navy. Drake's expedition against the Spaniards. His bold stroke. Exasperation of Philip.
He exhausts the land, and yet more than the enemy plunders and taxes the towns, enriching himself through the blood and tears of the tortured citizens and hungry peasantry, living in luxury and splendor, while the Elector is suffering want, while his land is starved and unproductive."
He is worse than the thief, for the thief robs the individual, while the corrupt official plunders an entire city or State. He is as wicked as the murderer, for the murderer may only take one life against the law, while the corrupt official and the man who corrupts the official alike aim at the assassination of the commonwealth itself.
"Then Abderrahman, seeing the land filled with the multitude of his army, pierces through the mountains, tramples over rough and level ground, plunders far into the country of the Franks, and smites all with the sword, insomuch that when Eudes came to battle with him at the river Garonne, and fled before him, God alone knows the number of the slain.
He supplies the young servant with money. Actions the most abhorrent to his nature he must see done before his face, and thousands and thousands worse are done in his absence, and he dare not complain. The banian extorts, robs, plunders, and then gives him just what proportion of the spoil he pleases.
On the Hanau scheme, united Teutschland, with England for soul to it, would have fallen vigorously on the throat of France, and made France disgorge: Lorraine, Elsass, the Three Bishoprics, not to think of Burgundy, and earlier plunders from the Reich, here would have been "cut and come again" for her Hungarian Majesty and everybody!
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