Reflections on the Revolution in FranceAnchor Press/Doubleday, 1973 - 515 Published in 1790, two years before the start of the Terror, this work offered a remarkably prescient view of the chaos that lay ahead. A classic of political science and a cornerstone of modern conservative thought, it articulates a defense of property, religion, and traditional values that resonates with modern readers. |
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... shillings per head , 15 and the taxes in England , under what is called its present Constitution , are forty - eight shillings and sixpence per head , men , women , and children , amounting to nearly seventeen millions sterling ...
... shillings per head , 15 and the taxes in England , under what is called its present Constitution , are forty - eight shillings and sixpence per head , men , women , and children , amounting to nearly seventeen millions sterling ...
Strona 480
... shillings ; and at sixty , one hundred and fifty- four pounds ten shillings . Converting , therefore , his ( or her ) individual tax into a tontine , the money he shall receive after fifty years , is but little more than the legal ...
... shillings ; and at sixty , one hundred and fifty- four pounds ten shillings . Converting , therefore , his ( or her ) individual tax into a tontine , the money he shall receive after fifty years , is but little more than the legal ...
Strona 482
... shillings a year for the expense of schooling , for six years each , which will give them six months schooling each year , and half a crown a year for paper and spelling books . The expense of this will be annually 34 £ 250,000 . There ...
... shillings a year for the expense of schooling , for six years each , which will give them six months schooling each year , and half a crown a year for paper and spelling books . The expense of this will be annually 34 £ 250,000 . There ...
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