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The principle is that the property of rich and poor shall be taken and
divided shared among the rich
To what end then once more are is it that Sinecures are kept
up and defended? that there may be so much the more
of the peoples moneyto squander to dispose of without account: to bestow
not simply in waste, for as will presently be seen
mere simple waste were that the worst would in comparison
of the natural facets of such be one improvement
but in waya way much worse than that of simple
waste: that money may never be wanting for augmentingmaking
the opulence of the opulent, the power of the powerful the
pride of the proud, the insolence of the insolent or the
corruption of the corrupt
And
And on what ground or rather by what phrases is
depredation in the constancesestablished shapes and to the established
amount attempted or pretended to be justified?
On the same grounds and by the same pleasures by which
depredation in every other shape paid to any other amount
might equating will be justified and so long in the people
would find money and patience would be justified
so long as a penny remained in the pockets of the people.
While the CrownKing had lands pretences as good as these
were found for granting away the Kings lands. Now that
nothing remains to the King but what is drawn from the
subsistence of the people by taxes imposed under the name
of taxes or under the name of fees alt at bestallow but those
plans in which the bestowal of that which in this shape under this name has
already been de bestowed, and whatever remains will follow it.
Identifier: | JB/147/112/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
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