The Roman Empire Under Constantine the GreatC. & J. Rivington, 1828 - 467 pages |
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Page 265 - Fourthly, by subjecting the people to the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression ; and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it.
Page 265 - ... it is certainly equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem himself from it. It is in some one or other of these four different ways that taxes are frequently so much more burdensome to the people than they are beneficial to the sovereign.
Page 17 - ... multa contempturus et formidanda. Nee eorum aliquando quisquam (ut in Italia) munus Martium pertimescens, pollicem sibi praecidit, quos localiter murcos appellant.
Page 459 - Signatum praesente nota producere nomen. Ut silvae foliis pronos mutantur in annos, 60 Prima cadunt : ita verborum vetus intent aetas, Et juvenum ritu florent modo nata vigentque.
Page 279 - Taylor, that a people of soldiers, whose trade was their sword, and whose sword supplied all the advantages of trade ; who brought the treasures of the world into their exchequer, without exporting any thing but their own personal bravery; who raised the public revenues, not by the culture of Italy, but by the tributes of provinces ; who had Rome for their mansion, and the world for their farm...
Page 370 - Incorporating in his single office all the "charitable uses in the kingdom," the Lord Chancellor furnishes Dickens with a compendious symbol of all the ways in which one human being can be charged with the care of another: he is a father to the orphan, a husband to the widow, a protector to the weak and infirm, and an almoner to the destitute. What better focus of attention in a book about human responsibility could Dickens find than a suit in Chancery? At one end of the scale is the Lord Chancellor...
Page 226 - Constantine, on the walls, the porticoes, and the ^ aqueducts of his metropolis. His own palace, seated on the most conspicuous elevation, was roofed externally with gilded plates of brass, which, when illuminated by the sun, had the appearance of a city on fire. It was surrounded by spacious gardens, comprising the wonders of art, and exhibiting the beauties of nature.
Page 17 - XV. 12. 3: ad militandum omnis aetas aptissima et pari pectoris robore senex ad procinctum ducitur et adultus gelu duratis artubus et labore adsiduo multa contempturus et formidanda.
Page 231 - An edict, to the same effect, was engraven on a pillar of marble; a senate, with many suitable honours, was appointed ; which, though less noble than the model after which it was formed, survived, as the phantom of liberty, till tlie age of Leo, in the middle of tbn ninth century.
Page 264 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as to take out and keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the treasury of the state.