 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...  Smugglers and Smuggling - Page 71by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - 1924 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Thomas Francis Moran - Bibliography - 1903 - 400 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1908 - 516 pages
...paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | William Cunningham - Free enterprise - 1908 - 512 pages
...paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Joseph Adalbert Dewe - Economic history - 1908 - 344 pages
...flings himself upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 362 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | William Macbride Childs - Reading (Berkshire) - 1910 - 108 pages
...throws himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid £100 for the privilege of putting him to death.' 2 The burden of taxation, the conviction that the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Tariff - 1911 - 658 pages
...cent; flings himseli back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent; makes his will on an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms* of an apothecary who has paid a license of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - Recitations - 1914 - 372 pages
...himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Frank Ferdinand Rosenblatt - Chartism - 1916 - 268 pages
...cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent, makes his will on an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
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