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...popular discontent than abusive taxation, The systems of taxation in China are extremely lenient and simple and this state of things is probably the foundation of the internal peace and content that has so long reigned in that country. The complicated and grinding tax system sowed the seeds of decay in ancient Rome, a fact upon which few historians have laid much stress. In modern times, to us the most famous rebellion resulting from an abusive system of taxation is of course our colonial revolution, and in France the unendurable taxes from the time of Louis the fourteenth...
...Foreign nations have greatly encouraged the carrying trade by granting subsidies to steamship lines-H. R. Reports, February 12, 1884; David A. Wells' Decay of our Mercantile Marine, p. 29, Curtis...
...latest and undoubtedly the best work of Mr. Thomas Bailey Aldrich. Competent critics have declared it the best poem that America has produced for many years. The most striking characteristic of this work is the beauty of the diction, especially in the lines descriptive of the gradual decay of the old castle and of the break of day. The author never lacks for picturesque phrases. The tale is placed in the Elizabethan are and, as hinted in the preface, the method of the author is obviously influenced by his study of the poets and dramatists of that period. The poem...
Every empire has its cycle of existence, passing from small beginnings to the zenith of power, and ending in decay and extinction. The power of Islam forms no exception to this rule. Its period of splendor was under Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, and since that time disintegration has made rapid progress...
...some of the smaller pieces of glass have shaken from their places. A very little care would repair the damage already done, as well as keep the windows in their proper condition for the future. The college can ill afford to allow these windows to fall into decay apparently from indifference. It is unjust both to those whose kind thoughtfulness has given these memorials, as well as to the large body of students who meet daily in the Hall. The leads should be replaced and the panes reset without further delay, and we would urge those whose duty...