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The French peasant pays a salt - tax , a contribution personelle et mobilière ; a licence tax ; and , if he live in a town , the vexatious and burdensome octroi . The German labouring man pays a poll - tax , a class tax , a trade - tax ...
The French peasant pays a salt - tax , a contribution personelle et mobilière ; a licence tax ; and , if he live in a town , the vexatious and burdensome octroi . The German labouring man pays a poll - tax , a class tax , a trade - tax ...
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To enable us all to work less intently and less incessantly , it is only necessary that we should be content to live more humbly and be satisfied with less : we must all alike purchase leisure by frugality , and by contentment with a ...
To enable us all to work less intently and less incessantly , it is only necessary that we should be content to live more humbly and be satisfied with less : we must all alike purchase leisure by frugality , and by contentment with a ...
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... I would rather live in a hollow ' tree all the summer , and die when the cold weather should set ❝ in , than undertake such an employment . ' The situation of libra- rian to the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh , with a salary of ...
... I would rather live in a hollow ' tree all the summer , and die when the cold weather should set ❝ in , than undertake such an employment . ' The situation of libra- rian to the Advocates ' Library at Edinburgh , with a salary of ...
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