The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature, Volume 23H.G. Allen, 1888 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries |
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Page 84 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 214 - In Africa (a quarter of the world) Men's skins are black, their hair is crisp and curled ; And somewhere there, unknown to public view, A mighty city lies, called Timbuctoo.
Page 85 - The proprietor of stock is properly a citizen of the world, and is not necessarily attached to any particular country. He would be apt to abandon the country in which he was exposed to a vexatious inquisition, in order to be assessed to a burdensome tax, and would remove his stocl{ to some other country where he could either carry on his business, or enjoy his fortune more at his ease.
Page 283 - It is impossible by means of inanimate material agency to derive mechanical effect from any portion of matter by cooling it below the temperature of the coldest of the surrounding objects.
Page 99 - Tea in England hath been sold in the leaf for six pounds, and sometimes for ten pounds the pound weight, and in respect of its former scarceness and dearness it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatments and entertainments, and presents made thereof to princes and grandees till the year 1657.
Page 215 - Crawley, springing out, seized him by the neckcloth, until Steyne, almost strangled, writhed, and bent under his arm. 'You lie, you dog,' said Rawdon. 'You lie, you coward and villain !' And he struck the peer twice over the face with his open hand, and flung him bleeding to the ground. It was all done before Rebecca could interpose. She 260 stood there trembling before him. She admired her husband, strong, brave, and victorious. "'Come here,
Page 228 - shall be taken to include every Tragedy, Comedy, Farce, Opera, Burletta, Interlude, Melodrama, Pantomime, or other Entertainment of the Stage, or any Part thereof...
Page 180 - ... for that player; and the fourth stroke won by either player is scored game for that player ; except as below : — If both players have won three strokes, the score is called deuce ; and the next stroke won by either player is scored advantage for that player.
Page 84 - The certainty of what each individual ought to pay is, in taxation, a matter of so great importance, that a very considerable degree of inequality, it appears, I * Wealth of Natiom, book v. ch. ii. believe, from the experience of all nations, is not near so great an evil, as a very small degree of uncertainty.
Page 283 - If an engine be such that, when it is worked backwards, the physical and mechanical agencies in every part of its motions are all reversed, it produces as much mechanical effect as can be produced by any thermo-dynamic engine, with the same temperatures of source and refrigerator, from a given quantity of heat.