 | Edward Gibbon - 1789 - 424 pàgines
...fimple but oppreifive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reafon a proportion of taxes , deducted on every branch from, the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dykes and canals, fa effential to the public... | |
 | David Ramsay - 1819 - 386 pàgines
...mode of raising a revenue by a capitation, and preferred, with reason, a proportion of taxes, deductrd from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to thr annual repairs of the dykes and canals. Under his administration,... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 674 pàgines
...important enterprize. The first trading city in the world was abundantly replenished with the means of subsistence and defence." But the Saracens were bold...soon renewed the maritime communication " which had been attempted or achieved by the Pharaohs, the Ptolemies, or the Caesars ; and a canal, at least eighty... | |
 | Robert Kerr - 1824 - 686 pàgines
...important enterprize. The first trading city in the world was abundantly replenished with the means of subsistence and defence." But the Saracens were bold...soon renewed the maritime communication " which had oeen attempted or achieved by the Pharaohs, the Ptolemies, or the Caesars; and a canal, at least eighty... | |
 | James Silk Buckingham - 1824 - 640 pàgines
...their foreign dominion. Instead of the oppressive mode of capitation, he deducted a proportion of taxes from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of this tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dykes and canals, so essential to the public,... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1855 - 496 pàgines
...simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dykes and canals, so essential to the public... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1870 - 458 pàgines
...simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes, deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dykes and canals, so essential to the public... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1875 - 632 pàgines
...simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dikes and canals, so essential to the public... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1901 - 570 pàgines
...simple but oppressive mode of capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes, deducted en every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dykes and canals, so essential to the public... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - 1906 - 612 pàgines
...simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third part of the tribute was appropriated to the annual repairs of the dikes and canals, so essential to the public... | |
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... of their victory. In the management of the revenue he disapproved the simple but oppressive mode of a capitation, and preferred with reason a proportion of taxes deducted on every branch from the clear profits of agriculture and commerce. A third... 
