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... remunerative . Even if the exportation or importation of some object is declared
contraband it does not necessarily mean that to evade the law and export or
import such things would bring financial returns . The inhabitants of the Channel
...
... remunerative . Even if the exportation or importation of some object is declared
contraband it does not necessarily mean that to evade the law and export or
import such things would bring financial returns . The inhabitants of the Channel
...
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... helm , the sloop bore in towards shore , threading her way between the
innumerable reefs and submerged rocks and heading for the Thimble Islands , a
group of over one hundred rocks and wooded islets with narrow channels
between .
... helm , the sloop bore in towards shore , threading her way between the
innumerable reefs and submerged rocks and heading for the Thimble Islands , a
group of over one hundred rocks and wooded islets with narrow channels
between .
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And just across the channel , in France and Holland , the people were literally
crying for raw wool and were willing to pay high prices for it . Here then , was a
tremendous temptation , and despite the penalty of death , made and provided for
...
And just across the channel , in France and Holland , the people were literally
crying for raw wool and were willing to pay high prices for it . Here then , was a
tremendous temptation , and despite the penalty of death , made and provided for
...
Page 66
To be sure , it made a trifle more work for the Owlers , but that was all . They
merely carried the wool inland beyond the fifteen mile limit , resold it to
themselves , carted it back and smuggled it across channel , adding a few
pennies a pound to ...
To be sure , it made a trifle more work for the Owlers , but that was all . They
merely carried the wool inland beyond the fifteen mile limit , resold it to
themselves , carted it back and smuggled it across channel , adding a few
pennies a pound to ...
Page 70
Brandy in France was worth only one pound for a four gallon tub , and brought
four or five pounds in England , and a single small vessel could carry eighty tubs
of the liquor across channel in a few hours . In 1787 there were 1425 articles of ...
Brandy in France was worth only one pound for a four gallon tub , and brought
four or five pounds in England , and a single small vessel could carry eighty tubs
of the liquor across channel in a few hours . In 1787 there were 1425 articles of ...
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Page 71 - ... restores him to health; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride; at bed or board; couchant or levant we must pay.
Page 82 - If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 71 - His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...
Page 71 - Taxes on the sauce which pampers man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice; on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.
Page 31 - ... wood, of the growth, production, or manufacture of any English plantations in America, Asia, or Africa, shall be shipped, carried, conveyed, or transported from any of the said English plantations, to any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty...
Page 71 - Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home. Taxes on the raw material ; taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man. Taxes on the sauce which pampers...
Page 31 - ... any land, island, territory, dominion, port, or place whatsoever, other than to such other English plantations as do belong to his Majesty, his...
Page 141 - A little tea, one leaf I did not steal. For guiltless bloodshed I to God appeal ; Put tea in one scale, human blood in t'other And think what 'tis to slay a harmless brother.
Page 142 - I am not dead, but sleepeth here, And when the Trumpet Sound I will appear. Four balls thro' me Pearced there way. Hard it was. I'd no time to pray. This stone that here you Do see My Comerades erected for the sake of me.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Smugglers and Smuggling |
| Author | Alpheus Hyatt Verrill |
| Publisher | Duffield, 1924 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 327 pages |
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