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Page 117 - While stands the Coliseum, Rome shall stand; 'When falls the Coliseum, Rome shall fall; 'And when Rome falls — the World.
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Page 342 - ... 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 man's appetite, and the drug that restores him to health — on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which bangs the criminal — on the poor man's salt, and the rich man's spice— on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribbons of the bride — at bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay.
Page 343 - 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 is then gathered to his fathers, to be taxed no more. In addition to all this, the habit of dealing with large sums will make the government avaricious and profuse; and the system itself will infallibly generate the base vermin of spies and informers, and a still more pestilent race of political tools and retainers of the meanest and most odious...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Young America in Wall-Street |
| Author | George Francis Train |
| Publisher | Derby & Jackson, 1857 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 8 Nov 2005 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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