Taxes under the Roman Rule.--Money Exactions of the Merovingian Kings.--Varieties of Money.--Financial Laws under Charlemagne.--Missi Dominici.--Increase of Taxes owing to the Crusades.--Organization of Finances by Louis IX.--Extortions of Philip le Bel.--Pecuniary Embarrassaient of his Successors.--Charles V. re-establishes Order in Finances.--Disasters of France under Charles VI., Charles VII., and Jacques Coeur.--Changes in Taxation from Louis XI.
— from Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by P. L. Jacob

TRUTH AND FALSEHOOD LECTURE XIV.
— from The Analysis of Mind by Bertrand Russell

This was the great crisis of all, when ‘the power of darkness’ made itself felt (Luke xxii.
— from St. Paul's Epistles to the Colossians and Philemon A revised text with introductions, notes and dissertations by J. B. (Joseph Barber) Lightfoot

Ye shall fear every man his mother and his father, Lev. xix.
— from Second Treatise of Government by John Locke

The creation dates from Louis XIV.—Trans.
— from The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Complete by Émile Zola

In September, 1872, he writes in Fors , Letter XXI, §§ 18, 19, in reply to a remonstrance from Mr. Sillar: “I am very careless about such minor {187} matters as the present conditions of ... banking.
— from The Harvest of Ruskin by John W. (John William) Graham

] Note 137 ( return ) [ The evidence of William of Tyre (Hist. in Gestis Dei per Francos, l. xxii.
— from History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Edward Gibbon

Adieu, FILMAR LETTER XXXIX FROM CAROLINE ASHBURN TO GEORGE VALMONT Sir, Our Sibella is found.—I write at her bed-side; and, if after one hour's cool investigation of the past, you can lay your hand on your heart and say, though Sibella offended me I was ever just to her , I will yield up the earnest wish I have, that you should come to London to extend the forgiveness you have already granted, to see, to bless her, e'er she dies.
— from Secresy; or, Ruin on the Rock by E. (Eliza) Fenwick

In the middle of this causeway, which separated Lake Chalco from Lake Xochicalco, was built the town of Cuitlahuac, which Cortez described as the most beautiful he had yet seen.
— from Hernando Cortez Makers of History by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott

“My dear,” said the Marquise d’Espard to the Comtesse Feraud, Louis XVIII.‘s last mistress, “Paris is certainly unique.
— from Bureaucracy by Honoré de Balzac

Francis Pallu, M. De la Motte Lambert, and Ignatius Cotolendy were the respective exponents of this pious idea, under the imposing titles of Bishops of Heliopolis, Borytus, Byzantium, and Metellopolis,—all Frenchmen, for Louis XIV. insisted that the glory of the enterprise should be ascribed exclusively to France and to himself.
— from The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Anna Harriette Leonowens