 | John Fitzgibbon (1st earl of Clare.) - 1800 - 1026 σελίδες
...pretence, therefore, and cause of an hundred insurrections — belong to this part of the subject. A tax more vexatious than oppressive, and more impolitic...more equal, certain, and satisfactory imposition. But they are not unjust — not even oppressive — rather profitable to the tenant, computed as a... | |
 | Stephen Barlow - 1814 - 504 σελίδες
...character. " Tithes," says he, " the pretence, therefore, and cause of an hundred insurrections—a tax more vexatious than oppressive and more impolitic...than either: vexatious, because paid directly and in owners cattle, then the tythe shall be according to the value of the land, after the rate of two shillings... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 610 σελίδες
...— belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either : vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal and fluctuating rates ; embarrassing because it is vexatious — because while a people, unanimous in this alone, declaim... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1836 - 606 σελίδες
...— belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either : vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal and fluctuating rate* ; embarrassing because it is vexatious — because while a people, unanimous in this alone, declaim... | |
 | REV. R. STEWART - 1851 - 312 σελίδες
...an attentive perusal. " Tithes, the pretence, therefore, and cause of an hundred insurrections — a tax more vexatious than oppressive, and more impolitic...more equal, certain, and satisfactory imposition. " But they are not unjust, not even oppressive ; rather profitable to the tenant, computed as a tenth... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 490 σελίδες
...insurrections—belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either: vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal and fluctuating rates: embarrassing because it is vexatious—because while a people, unanimous in this alone, declaim against... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1885 - 490 σελίδες
...insurrections—belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either: vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal and fluctuating rates: embarrassing because it is vexatious—because while a people, unanimous in this alone, declaim against... | |
 | 1836 - 610 σελίδες
...— belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either: vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal and fluctuating rates ; embarrassing because it is vexatious — because while a people, unanimous in this alone, declaim... | |
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Tithes also — the pretence, and therefore the cause, of an hundred insurrections — belong to this part of the subject. A tax rather vexatious than oppressive, and more embarrassing than either : vexatious, because paid directly and in kind, at unequal... 