 | Edward Gibbon - 1781
...infight into the conftitution of government, " The authority of the prince," (aid Artaxerxes, " muft be defended by a military force; that " force can only be maintained by taxes ; all " taxes muft, at laft, fall upon agriculture ; and " agriculture can never flourifh except under... | |
 | James Maitland Lauderdale (Earl of) - Business & Economics - 1804 - 488 pages
...of Perfia, That " the --." authority of the Prince muft be defended by a mili", tary force ; which force can only be maintained by "\taxes ; and all taxes muft, at laft, fall upon agriculture." GIBBON'S Hiftory, vol. ip 256. 410 edit. fifheries ; principally from what is nourifhed on its furface... | |
 | James Maitland Lauderdale (Earl of) - Business & Economics - 1804 - 106 pages
...King of Perfia, That " the " authority of the Prince muft be defended by a mili" tary force ; which force can only be maintained by " taxes ; and all taxes muft, at Lift, fall upon agriculture." GIBBON'S Hiftory, rol. ip 256. 4*0 edit. fifheries ; principally from... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1821
...212. The old abbreviators and modern compilers, bave blindly followed the Augustan History. fended by a military force ; that force can only be maintained by taxes ; all taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture ; and agriculture can never flourish except under... | |
 | Edward Gibbon - 1837
...into the constitution of government. ** The authority of the " prince," said Artaxerxes, " must be defended " by a military force ; that force can only be " maintained by taxes; all taxes must, at last, " full upon agriculture; and agriculture can " never flourish except under... | |
 | Edward Gibbon, William Smith (sir) - History - 1854
...insight into the constitution of government. " The authority of the prince," said Artaxerxes, " must be defended by a military force ; that force " can only be maintained by taxes ; all taxes must at last fall upon " agriculture ; and agriculture can never flourish except under... | |
 | James De Pui - 1873 - 296 pages
...detrimental to agriculture. It was the saying of a Persian monarch, that the authority of a prince must be defended by a military force; that force can only be maintained by taxes; all taxes must at last fall upon agriculture, and agriculture can never flourish, but under the protection... | |
 | John Piggot - 1874 - 328 pages
...political economy appears from one of his sayings quoted by Gibbon : " The authority of the prince must be defended by a military force ; that force can only be maintained by taxes ; all taxes must at last fall upon agriculture ; and agriculture can never flourish, except under the... | |
 | G. R. Haywood - Business & Economics - 1884 - 39 pages
...insight into the constitution of government. The authority of the Prince, said Artaxerxes, must be defended by a military force; that force can only be maintained by taxes; all taxes must at last fall on agriculture; and agriculture can never flo""'" 1 " "--~"~* --•- J... | |
 | George Rawlinson - 1885
...of P^itio, vol. L p. 94). Gibbon paraphrases thus: "The authority of the pi-inc" must bv defend ed by a military force: that force can only be maintained by taxes: all taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture: rtiiJ agriculture can never flourish exi-ept under... | |
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The authority of the prince," said Artaxerxes, "must be defended by a military force; that force can only be maintained by taxes ; all taxes must, at last, fall upon agriculture ; and agriculture can never flourish except under the protection of justice... 
