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'Vectigal' was owing to his tutor's ignorance, who had allowed him so to read it; that Lord North, and every other Etonian in the house, knew better -- was owing not to any disproportionate effort of memory directed to that particular word, as though they had committed to memory a rule enjoining them to place the accent on the penultimate of the word vectigal: their knowledge no more rested on such an anticipation by express rules of their own experience, than Burke's ignorance of the quantity on the want of such anticipation; the anticipation was needless -- coming from a tutor who knew the quantity, and impossible -- coming from a tutor who knew it not.
The Uncollected Writings of Thomas de Quincey—Vol. 1 With a Preface and Annotations by James Hogg Thomas De Quincey 1822
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Plato idem 7. de legibus, quae ad vitam necessaria, et quibus carere non possumus, nullum dependi vectigal, &c.
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Quando aliquis moritur plangunt vehementer vlulando: et tunc sunt liberi quod non dant vectigal vsque ad annum.
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Nam cum insula in quatuor partes diuisa sit, quarta pars, nempe borealis, tantum dimidia, hoc vtitur mercimonio, nec sulphuris mica in vectigal
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Neque verum est, quod de sulphuris copia tradit Munsterus, esse videlicet pene vnicum Insulæ mercimonium & vectigal.
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Neque verum est, quod de sulphuris copia tradit Munsterus, esse videlicet pene vnicum Insul� mercimonium & vectigal.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Nam cum insula in quatuor partes diuisa sit, quarta pars, nempe borealis, tantum dimidia, hoc vtitur mercimonio, nec sulphuris mica in vectigal
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Quando aliquis moritur plangunt vehementer vlulando: et tunc sunt liberi quod non dant vectigal vsque ad annum.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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* Num pro eo quod dicunt Latini, Pendere vectigal vel tributum, et
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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"The noble lord hints that I have erred in the quantity of a principal word in my quotation; I rejoice at it, sir, because it gives me an opportunity of repeating the inestimable adage, -- 'Magnum vectigal est parsimonia.'"
Architects of Fate or, Steps to Success and Power Orison Swett Marden 1887
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