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paid in future from a revenue of
This must be paid by the industrious classes of society, and by the landlords; that is, by all those whose nominal incomes vary with the variations in the measure of value; and if we completely succeed in the reduction of the price of corn and labour , this increased interest must be paid in future from a revenue of about half the nominal value of the national income in 1813 .
— from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 66, No. 410, December 1849 by Various

paid in future from a revenue of
The interest and charges of the national debt, including the sinking fund, are now little short of L40 millions a year; and these L40 millions, if we completely succeed in the reduction of the price of corn and labour, are to be paid in future from a revenue of about half the nominal value of the national income in 1813.
— from The Grounds of an Opinion on the Policy of Restricting the Importation of Foreign Corn Intended as an appendix to "Observations on the corn laws" by T. R. (Thomas Robert) Malthus

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