You know (to adopt the easy or conversational style) that you and I belong to a happy minority. We are the sons of the hunters and the wandering sing… - Hilaire Belloc

the absolute monopoly of the soil, the gripping and the strangling of the populace by landlords, is a purely Protestant development.

Child! Do not throw this book about;
Refrain from the unholy pleasure
Of cutting all the pictures out!
Preserve it as your chiefest treasure.

"To this declaration they added a definite act of sovereignty which trespassed upon and contradicted the legal authority of the Crown. True, the motion was only moved and passed “provisionally,” but the words used were final, for in this motion the self-styled “National Assembly” declared that “provisionally” taxes and dues might be raised upon the old authority but that only until the National Assembly should disperse; “after which day" — and here we reach the sacramental formula, as it were, of the crisis — "the National Assembly wills and decrees that all taxes and dues of whatever nature which have not been specifically formally and freely granted by the said Assembly shall cease in every province of the kingdom no matter how such that province may be administered."