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It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. The home consumer is obliged to pay, first the tax which is necessary for paying the bounty; and, secondly, the still greater tax which necessarily arises from the enhancement of the price of the commodity in the home market.

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Book IV, Chapter VIII, paragraph 1540

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子曰：「朝聞道，夕死可矣！」

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里仁第四·四之八

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The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. But a public bank, which is to support public credit, and, upon particular emergencies, to advance to government the whole produce of a tax, to the amount, perhaps, of several millions, a year or two before it comes in, requires a greater capital than can easily be collected into any private copartnery.

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Book V, Chapter I, paragraph 1748

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甲子，車駕還京師，上讀《明堂針灸書》，云：「人五藏之系，鹹附於背。」戊寅，詔自今毋得笞囚背。

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卷193·太宗文武大聖大廣孝皇帝上之中貞觀四年（庚寅，公元六三零年）·第40则

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I now open'd a little stationer's shop. I had in it blanks of all sorts, the correctest that ever appear'd among us, being assisted in that by my friend Breintnal. I had also paper, parchment, chapmen's books, etc. One Whitemash, a compositor I had known in London, an excellent workman, now came to me, and work'd with me constantly and diligently; and I took an apprentice, the son of Aquila Rose.

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Excerpt 38

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