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 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1822 - 530 pages
...their money. They impo»ed iaxes n|»ti tuwnn, and when they Imd exhnusted them of every thing, m't them on fire, You might travel a day, and not find...country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were seen riding up to a town, till its inlmbitaino leu it, taking them for plunderen. And this lasted,... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Europe - 1837 - 576 pages
...men for their money. They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they had exhausted them of every thing, set them on fire. You might travel a day, and not...country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were seen riding up to a town, all its inhabitants left it, taking them for plunderers. And this lasted,... | |
 | Hannah Lawrance - Great Britain - 1838 - 474 pages
...tortured men for their money. They laid taxes on towns, and when they had exhausted them of every thing set them on fire. You might travel a day and not find one man living in a town, nor any land tilled. Never did the country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were riding up to a town all... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Constitutional history - 1853 - 364 pages
...cruelly torturing them for their money. They made many thousands die of hunger. They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they had exhausted them of everything,...travel a day, and not find one man living in a town, or in the country one cultivated field. The poor died of hunger ; and they who were once men of substance... | |
 | E. S. Creasy - 1854 - 468 pages
...cruelly torturing them for their money. They made many thousands die of hunger. They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they had exhausted them of everything,...travel a day, and not find one man living in a town, or in the country one cultivated field. The poor died of hunger; and they who were once men of substance... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1855 - 308 pages
...wicked men, and oppressed the people cruelly, torturing men for their money. They imposed taxes -upon towns, and when they had exhausted them of everything,...country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were seen riding up to a town, all the inhabitants left it, taking them for plunderers. And this lasted,... | |
 | Peter John Locke King - Inheritance and succession - 1855 - 158 pages
...torturing them for " their money. They made thousands die of hunger. G 97 " They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they " had exhausted them of everything,...on fire. " You might travel a day and not find one living " man in a town, or one cultivated field in the " country. The poor died of hunger, and they... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Civilization, Medieval - 1856 - 576 pages
...money. They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they bad exhausted them of every thing, set them on Are. You might travel a day, and not find one man living...country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were seen riding up to a town, all its inhabitants left it, taking them for plunderers. And this lasted,... | |
 | Charles Bernard Gibson - 1857 - 312 pages
...men for their money. They imposed taxes on towns, and when they had exhausted them of every thing, set them on fire. You might travel a day, and not...evils. If two or three men [Normans] were seen riding * " Milleshno ct sexagesimo sexto anno gratise, perfeeit dominator Deus de gente Anglorum quod diu... | |
 | James White - Great Britain - 1858 - 304 pages
...wicked men, and oppressed the people cruelly, torturing men for their money. They imposed taxes upon towns, and when they had exhausted them of everything,...country suffer greater evils. If two or three men were seen riding up to a town, all the inhabitants left it, taking them for plunderers. And this lasted,... | |
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