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... peasants will stay , and hear what that has to say , when all the world about is covered with its snowy shroud of silence , and far off the valley smiles , like the happy valley of Rasselas ; and they will crowd about their great black ...
... peasants will stay , and hear what that has to say , when all the world about is covered with its snowy shroud of silence , and far off the valley smiles , like the happy valley of Rasselas ; and they will crowd about their great black ...
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... peasants and the poor , who all had felt the benefit of their charity , and many of whom had earned their living by labour on the land . They ad- ministered the property well , and the large profit it yielded seems to have been devoted ...
... peasants and the poor , who all had felt the benefit of their charity , and many of whom had earned their living by labour on the land . They ad- ministered the property well , and the large profit it yielded seems to have been devoted ...
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... peasants , and to all with whom they had intercourse , and they were universally liked . The scandal is — and it may be nothing but scandal - that they did not all observe very strenuously the strict laws of that chastity which in ...
... peasants , and to all with whom they had intercourse , and they were universally liked . The scandal is — and it may be nothing but scandal - that they did not all observe very strenuously the strict laws of that chastity which in ...
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... peasants . Their landed property , however , was still very extensive and productive . Taxes then in Tuscany were very light ; for the Government was inexpensively conducted , the country was prosperous , the rev- enues large , the ...
... peasants . Their landed property , however , was still very extensive and productive . Taxes then in Tuscany were very light ; for the Government was inexpensively conducted , the country was prosperous , the rev- enues large , the ...
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... peasants of the neighbourhood ? In the matter of revenue , the nation has certainly been the loser . As we have already seen , under the administration of the monks the taxes then paid to the Govern- ment , light as taxes were then ...
... peasants of the neighbourhood ? In the matter of revenue , the nation has certainly been the loser . As we have already seen , under the administration of the monks the taxes then paid to the Govern- ment , light as taxes were then ...
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