Taxation, Revenue, Expenditure, Power, Statistics, and Debt of the Whole British Empire: Their Origin, Progress, and Present State. With an Estimate of the Capital and Resources of the Empire, and a Practical Plan for Applying Them to the Liquidation of the National Dept. The Whole Founded On, and Illustrated By, Official Tables, and Authentic Documents |
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... Britain and Ireland .... STATISTICAL TABLES to Ditto 299 329 SECTION III . - Extent and Importance of British Possessions in all quarters of the World ... .............................. . SECTION IV .-- Capital , & c . , & c . , of ...
... Britain and Ireland .... STATISTICAL TABLES to Ditto 299 329 SECTION III . - Extent and Importance of British Possessions in all quarters of the World ... .............................. . SECTION IV .-- Capital , & c . , & c . , of ...
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... Britain , and were at first paid in kind ; -its income was always small , and inadequate to cover the expendi- ture ; -Richard II . was compelled to impose a tax upon absentees , the same causes operating in the earliest times , as in ...
... Britain , and were at first paid in kind ; -its income was always small , and inadequate to cover the expendi- ture ; -Richard II . was compelled to impose a tax upon absentees , the same causes operating in the earliest times , as in ...
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... Britain and Ireland , and of the illegal exactions , were applied in this period . COINCIDENT with the discovery of the New World , burst forth the first great revolution in Europe . To the downfal of the Roman empire succeeded the ir ...
... Britain and Ireland , and of the illegal exactions , were applied in this period . COINCIDENT with the discovery of the New World , burst forth the first great revolution in Europe . To the downfal of the Roman empire succeeded the ir ...
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... Britain . This monarch's revenue arose from the same sources as that of his predecessors ; demesnes , which yielded 80,000l . per annum , and a royal and feudal prerogative , in virtue of which goods were forcibly sold at whatever price ...
... Britain . This monarch's revenue arose from the same sources as that of his predecessors ; demesnes , which yielded 80,000l . per annum , and a royal and feudal prerogative , in virtue of which goods were forcibly sold at whatever price ...
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... Britain to amalgamate such opposite nations in order to oppose a barrier to French irruption , while at the same time she discouraged the attempt to raise , for the same end , a much stronger barrier , by the union ( so easy to be ...
... Britain to amalgamate such opposite nations in order to oppose a barrier to French irruption , while at the same time she discouraged the attempt to raise , for the same end , a much stronger barrier , by the union ( so easy to be ...
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