A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government: Including a View of the Taxation of the French EmpireReprinted for Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1810 - 252 σελίδες |
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according altogether amount armies Austria Bonaparte branch British budget cabinet calculated cent centimes character cial civil classes collection commerce conquest considerable constitution continent coun deliberative assemblies despotism direct taxes domestic dominion dred droit duties Emperor empire enemy England enjoy equal established estimated Europe evils execution expenses favour foreign French empire French government French rulers fund government of France habits hundred and seven hundred and six imperial importance income industry influence interest labour lative latter levied Livy Lord Henry Petty manufactures means ment military millions of francs minister of finance monarchy Montesquieu moral nature Necker officers old government oppressive Paris political population present principles produce Ramel render revenue revolution ruin Russia scarcely Sir James Steuart Spain spirit strength Talleyrand territory thousand eight hundred tion trade treasury usurpation vernment wealth whole writer yield
Δημοφιλή αποσπάσματα
Σελίδα 114 - All taxes upon the transference of property of every kind, so far as they diminish the capital value of that property, tend to diminish the funds destined for the maintenance of productive labour.
Σελίδα 186 - ... judgment, affect to deplore the condition of England, — it is nevertheless, true, that there does not exist, and never has existed elsewhere, — so beautiful and perfect a model of public and private prosperity; — so magnificent, and at the same time, so solid a fabric of social happiness and national grandeur.
Σελίδα 51 - Of public power, the majesty of rule, The sword, the laurel, and the purple robe, To slavish, empty pageants, to adorn A tyrant's walk, and glitter in the eyes Of such as bow the knee...
Σελίδα 2 - A Letter on the Genius and Dispositions of the French Government ; including a View of the Taxation of the French Empire, by an American recently returned from Europe (Walsh).
Σελίδα 186 - I pay this just tribute of admiration with the more pleasure, as it is to me in the light of an Atonement for the errors and prejudices, under which I laboured, on this subject, before I enjoyed the advantage of a personal experience. A residence of nearly two years in that country, — during which period, I visited and studied almost every part of it, — with no other view or pursuit than that of obtaining correct information, and, I may add, with previous studies well fitted to promote my object,...
Σελίδα 89 - ... government has omitted none, which, by any possibility, could be rendered productive. In England, they have studiously avoided the imposition of such taxes as might clog the industry, or trench too far upon the necessities, of the people. In France, these considerations appear to have had...
Σελίδα 192 - The vision is not more delightfully recreated by the rural scenery, than the moral sense is gratified, and the understanding elevated, by the institutions of this great country. The first and continued exclamation of an American, who contemplates them with unbiassed judgment, is — Salve magna Parens.frugum, saturnia tellus, Magna virum.
Σελίδα 51 - Ambition ; when the pious band Of youths who fought for freedom and their sires, Lie side by side in gore ; when ruffian Pride Usurps the throne of Justice, turns the pomp...
Σελίδα 122 - They circulate widely also — among the class of abandoned profligates, — of persons without employment, les gens desceuvrts,- — and of decent but necessitous individuals, with whom Paris abounds beyond any other capital in the world. I have heard it asserted, by an intelligent person engaged in the administration of the lotteries, that they occasioned in Paris more than one hundred suicides in the course of the year.