In both archways there is an impost (a projection, that is, from which the arch springs), and this impost is continued through the thickness of the wall.
And therefore the Aretines ordained that in place of this there should serve the impost paid by the district (thus do they call a tax), as a particular revenue for that work; which impost has lasted up to our own day, and continues to last.
Thus, the impost was demanded in the name of chivalry and in the name of religion; it was paid without a murmur, because Louis confided the gathering of it to men of acknowledged integrity.
The clergy of Rouen, with the university and parliament of Paris, opposed the impost openly.
France placed in his hands; at this period no regular impost was known, and, to support the splendour of their thrones, kings had nothing to depend upon but the revenues of their domains.
Shall we suppress the impost and give that advantage to foreign over domestic manufactures?
But the impost for making them and keeping them up did not in the least stop during this experiment or since, nor has it ceased to be appropriated as a branch of the King's revenue.
Where the circumstances of either party render it expedient to levy a revenue, by way of impost on commerce, its freedom might be modified in that particular, by mutual and equivalent measures, preserving it entire in all others.
To determine whether the impost will act proportionably or not, we must consider in what respect the proportion is to be taken.
These may be raised by laying the impostrecommended by Congress.
But it may perhaps be suggested, that the five per cent impost will not be sufficient for the object in view.
That the exclusive benefit of the impost should be carried to account of the State.
I will only take the liberty to drop one idea with respect to the impost already required.
Sir, I presume you have been before this informed, that all the States except Rhode Island, have acceded to the impost law.
That the impost would draw a disproportionate supply from either merchant or consumer.
Convinced that the impost recommended was not sufficient, I had devised some additional funds for the payment of our debts, and the support of our credit.
With respect to the impost I conceive it to be justly exceptionable, because that an estimation ad valorem is arbitrary, and the law ought in all cases to be clear and explicit.
It was not yet known that Rhode Island had unanimously refused to pass the impost law, and that Virginia had repealed it.
The objections heretofore raised against the impost will by this means be totally done away, because each State may at its option either comply with the general plan or pay her particular share of the whole debt.
It is then carried round the building, and forms the impost moulding of the side arches in the bema and of the east window.
In shafted window of several lights, the impost piers between the arches are of the full thickness of the wall, but are very narrow from side to side.
It was, however, too inartistic to endure, and eventually was superseded by capitals with a broad flattened head on which the wide impost of an arch could rest securely.
Here the classic form is accurately adhered to, but, as the curved abacus was unsuitable to the arch, a large splayed abacus or impost block is placed above the capital.
Openings which do not cut into the vault are then frankly arched, without impost moulding of any kind.
It is a general feature of the Byzantine capital that it projects at no point beyond the impost line of the arch, thus differing both from the classic and the Gothic forms.
The development of the capital from the Roman form, which was suitable only for the lintel, to the impost capital shaped to receive an arch has been well explained by Lethaby and Swainson.
It appears appropriately here as the form of capital required to carry the impost of an arch upon a capital.
Originally the dome arches rested on four piers or columns, but these have been removed in the course of Turkish repairs, and the dome arches are now supported by beams running across the church, under the impost of the arches.
My desire would be to place at their disposal, if it were possible, the common necessaries and comforts of life free from the prohibitory impost of taxation.
It is nevertheless probable that the bulk of persons who are called upon to pay this impost are included in the 150l.
Thus congress completely abandoned the principle of the tariff; and substituted a mere fiscal impost for a system of protective duties.
In the Union there is but one tribunal to interpret, as there is one legislature to make the laws; and an impost voted by the representatives of the nation is binding upon all the citizens.
If the second class has the power of making the laws, it will certainly not be lavish of taxes, because nothing is so onerous as a large impost which is levied upon a small income.
In obedience to this order, several reports had been prepared, the first of which repeated the recommendation of an additional impost on foreign distilled spirits and of a duty on spirits distilled within the United States.
In the opinion of the best judges, the impost on the mass of foreign merchandise could not safely be carried further for the present.
An attempt to raise the impost would be dangerous, and the excise added to it would not produce funds adequate to the object.
He scattered his remarks over the wholeImpost bill, calling it partial, oppressive, etc.
He arraigned the whole Impost law, and then charged (indirectly) the whole Congress with a design of oppressing South Carolina.
Thus Congress completely abandoned the principle of the tariff; and substituted a mere fiscal impost to a system of protective duties.
The impost act failed, and Howell, who by his opposition to it had made himself numerous enemies in Congress, had greatly added to his influence at home.
All that remonstrance could gain was a postponement of the stamp act till some more acceptable form of impost could be devised.
The impost on slaves brought from the West Indies had been removed by the King's orders, and Governor Wanton could answer that there were no duties affecting the direct commerce with England.
The droit des pauvres, as the impost in question is called, has often been protested against by the Paris managers, though in taking a theatre they know perfectly well what liabilities they incur.
The managers did not fail to protest; on which it was explained to them that the poor-tax was an impost levied on the spectator, not on the manager.
Many years later than 1836, when La Presse was started, the invariable price of a London morning newspaper was fivepence; there was a penny stamp on each number issued, and an impost of eighteenpence on each advertisement.
The impost that we pay into the emperor's fisc is not too heavy.
The last ounce was now to be put upon the camel's back in the failure of the impost amendment.
At the same time there came the final struggle in New York over the impost amendment, against which Governor Clinton had firmly set his face.
This impost was to be kept up for twenty-five years only, and the collectors were to be appointed by the several states, each for its own ports.
This true patriot had consulted his legal advisers on the subject of ship-money, and hearing from them that it could not be justly claimed, he determined that he would resist the impost at any sacrifice.
