This will reward traitors with a liberal premium for treason.
To hold that by so doing they could escape taxation, would be to offer a premium for insurrection--to reward instead of punishing treason.
I have spoken of the public-store scrip commanding several hundred per cent premium over money, but that was in the earlier stages of the transition period.
Toward the last the premium mounted to ever-dizzier altitudes, until the value of money quite disappeared, it being literally good for nothing as money.
It thus became a currency which commanded three, four, and five hundred per cent premium over money which would only buy the high-priced and adulterated goods for sale in the remaining stores of the capitalists.
The gain of the premium went, of course, to the public employees.
In consequence of this offer, a journeyman glazier, named Goujon, received a premium of 200 livres, and Messrs.
The premium of forty pounds proposed for the best poem on the Divine Attributes is here alluded to.
This is an arrangement common in the slave states, and in its practical operation is equivalent to a bounty on hard driving--a virtual premium offered to overseers to keep the slaves whipped up to the top of their strength.
The system of appraisement, he said, was a premium upon all the bad qualities of the negroes and a tax upon all the good ones.
It not only rewards dullness as if it were positive virtue, but sets an enormous premium upon hypocrisy.
An enormous premium both in pleasure and competitive efficiency is put upon voluntary childlessness, and enormous inducements are held out to women to subordinate instinctive and selective preferences to social and material considerations.
Increasing Rates of Premium on a new and remarkable plan for securing Loans or Debts; a less immediate payment being required on a Policy for the whole term of Life than in any other Office.
The superiority of the system of Assurance adopted by this Company, will be found in the fact that the premium required by a bonus office to assure 1,000l.
Phileas Fogg's name was once more at a premium on 'Change.
But modern conditions conspire to put a heavy handicap upon parentage and an enormouspremium upon the partial or complete evasion of offspring, and that is where the clue to the trouble lies.
But she had twelve years unexpired of the lease granted for twenty-one years to her husband on low terms, and she wanted a premium for its transfer, and a purchaser for the stock of the shop.
From this it will be seen that Mr. Lethbridge had overrated the value of Cecilia's alliance in the negotiation respecting Mrs. Bawtrey's premium and shop.
We must fix the premium so that you will have paid more.
Please make the annual premium so low that by the time when, according to the tables of your actuary, it will probably be destroyed by fire I will have paid you considerably less than the face of the policy.
We shall be happy to give a premium of 6 per cent.
Of course insurances differ as to the amount of premium to be paid according to the age of the yacht, her size, and the amount of the policy.
It also appears to put a premium on abnormal freeboard, so as to increase T.
It should be accompanied by a system of government insurance, whereby all classes who desire to be thrifty may pay a small annual premium in the days of health, and secure adequate hospital treatment and care when ill.
My proposal is this--my unshaken position from which I will not swerve or retract--a gold medal and premium equivalent to those originally advertised.
Every syllable that transpired afterwards tended only to show that the decision was already pronounced--that the premium was already awarded.
June 1832), had actually determined to award the gold medal and premium to one of their own Council.
Thus, we observe, a premium on shrewdness and a tax on sincerity.
Premium to each new subscriber to the Journal, or we will send the Chart Premium.
To each new subscriber is given either the BUST or CHART Premium described above.
The premium asked is eight hundred pounds, and I think that between your father and myself it ought to be raised.
I said at once that you had finally agreed to pay the premium they ask, and that the tedious question had been settled.
I suggest 10 per cent as the demand premiumat the beginning because I believe this rate would insure the retention of silver in the country for change.
It would compel the debtor class to pay, beyond their contracts, the premium on gold at the date of their purchase, and would bring bankruptcy and ruin to thousands.
