The schedule consists of two lists, one comprising articles taxedirrespective of price at 10 per cent.
In all the ex-Spanish colonies members of the clergy swarm, and we are not afraid of being taxed with exaggeration when we assert that in Chili they form at least one-fourth of the population.
Even his great strength and hardihood, won by work and privation in the far North-West, had been already taxed in the many days of the battling with the gale when all on board who could lend a hand were taken into service.
Privations he had in plenty; and all the fibre of his body and the strength of his resolution and endurance were now and again taxed to their utmost.
Ingenuity was taxed to find new means of personal infliction.
Their inconceivable greed could not bear to be taxed even in its own defence.
A demand was therefore made that the early bonds should be paid in greenbacks; also that all government bonds (which had been exempted from taxation) should be taxed like other property.
Many banks accepted these terms; but it was not till (1865) after Congress taxed the notes of state banks that those notes were driven out of circulation.
Not being represented, they could not be taxed by Parliament, because taxes could lawfully be laid on them only by their chosen representatives.
One section of the law therefore provided that all yearly incomes above $4000 should be taxed two per cent.
The refusal of the colonists to buy the taxed articles led to the repeal of all the taxes except that on tea (1770).
The colonists still refused to buy taxed tea, whereupon Parliament enabled the East India Company to send over tea for sale at a lower price than before.
But I must conclude, lest I be justly taxed with wanting both.
On yet another occasion he had an experience that taxed his tact and strength to the utmost.
When we have taxedthem with it, they are unashamed.
They had shown, throughout their progress, no great respect either for the ordinances, or the will of the viceroy; for they had taxed the poor natives as freely and unscrupulously as any of the Conquerors.
But the Spaniards, while they taxed the strength of the native to the utmost, deprived him of the means of repairing it, when exhausted.
They complain that they are taxed without their consent.
The refractory colonies, who refuse all composition, will remain taxed only to your old impositions, which, however grievous in principle, are trifling as to production.
If commercial principles had been the true motives to the repeal, or had they been at all attended to, tea would have been the last article we should have left taxed for a subject of controversy.
If you tax the import of that rebellious colony, what do you tax but your own manufactures, or the goods of some other obedient and already well-taxed colony?
They complain that they aretaxed in a Parliament in which they are not represented.
They have been taxed to their ruin at the pleasure of necessitous and profligate relations, and according to the measure of their necessity and profligacy.
This country cannot be said to have ever formally taxed her.
Your industry, and the bread of your children, was taxed for a pecuniary reward to stimulate avarice to do what Nature refused, to inform and prosecute on this law.
Now suppose it is Virginia that refuses to appear at your auction, while Maryland and North Carolina bid handsomely for their ransom, and are taxed to your quota, how will you put these colonies on a par?
Meeting the defaulter in the street, he reminded him of the transaction, taxed him with infidelity to his engagements, and had the satisfaction of receiving his money and relieving his mind at the same time.
He exhausted himself physically, and fell into ill-health by exertions that would not have taxed an ordinary constitution.
Ingenuity and originality are severely taxed in the effort to produce something different from the ordinary monotonous line of Pincushions, Antimacassars, and Tennis-aprons.
His Commentaries on the Scriptures are taxed with it, and in fact he is not in good odour with any but the Arminian divines, nor do they, we see, wholly agree with him.
That I am often a sinner with any little wit I have, I do confess: but I have taxed my recollection to no purpose, to find out when it was employed against you.
A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.
Vattemare, which opened their eyes to an historical fact quite new to them, and of which they soon taxed him and me for some further account.
He discovered some notorious lies that I had framed, and taxed me with them in such a manner that I could in no wise get off.
But I had not asked you to be taxed to buy negroes, except in such way as to save you from greater taxation to save the Union exclusively by other means.
I suggested compensated emancipation, to which you replied you wished not to be taxed to buy negroes.
Whilst Catholics cannot avail themselves of such institutions, which provide only a Godless education, they are, nevertheless, heavily taxed for their support.
Besides, the poor are never taxed by the courts, while they are always supplied with counsel.
Telegraph companies are still locally assessed in most states, but in over a third of the states are taxedeither on gross receipts, or on mileage of wire.
Until near the second quarter of the nineteenth century, business corporations (of which there were few) were taxed just as was the general property of individuals.
Tangible things are comparatively easy to find, measure, and evaluate where they are, and if they are all taxed it is evidently the same as if all the capital values based upon them were taxed in the owners' hands.
About a third of the states no longer make the physical plant the basis of taxation, except that in most of them some part or kinds of real estate are taxed locally.
Social expediency, more or less broadly interpreted, determines who shall be taxedand what social results are to be sought.
But as such a tariff does not increase home production of the taxed article, it is therefore for revenue, not for protection.
Wealth is an impersonal basis of taxation; each piece of wealth might be taxed once as a unit no matter how the ownership were divided.
Of his own free will he made over the entire property to the account of the Hospital to which it had been originally devised, and it was in connection with that transfer that he was taxed with old-world folly.
Of the result of that hearing the reader has been already informed, and then it was that Tristrem was taxedwith old-world folly.
We men of business are ready and willing to be taxed in this emergency to the very limit of our ability, and to make contributions to war relief work and other good causes, without stint.
In the same line of thought and purpose they proclaim that this is “a rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight” and that wealth is being taxed here with undue leniency as compared to the burden laid upon it in other countries.
The largest incomes are taxed far more heavily here than anywhere else in the world.
In short, our law-makers have decreed that normal business profits are taxed here much more heavily than in England, while direct war profits are taxed less heavily.
The fact is that, generally speaking, capital engaged in business is now being taxed in America more heavily than anywhere else in the world.
From appearances, however, I should think they were composed by the priests, who have not a little taxed their invention to find out the different modes in which a man can be put to death.
Exports leaving under the Spanish flag were only taxed to the amount of one per cent.
In 1779 cock-fights were taxed for the first time.
The inferior quality of the Philippine sugar is at once perceived by the English refiners, and is only taxed at 8s.
These holy insurrections have proved to our masters that the 'clowns, artisans and bourgeois' will no longer allow themselves to be taxed at mercy, robbed, tortured and killed with impunity.
All his serfs and bondsmen, subject to mortmain and taille at his pleasure and mercy, are taxed by the will of the said lord count to pay into his treasury four copper sous per head before the last day of this month at the latest.
At last, much to my relief, seeing that I began to fear I had taxed mademoiselle's strength too far, the long low buildings of the inn at which I proposed to stay came in sight, at the crossing of the road and river.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "taxed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
