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this country , no tithes would be paid in those cases where the JLevites of our establishment performed no adequate service in return . Nor would tithes be paid where poor rates are collected , It being clearly enacted by Moses that half of the tithes should be set apart for the poor , or in other words , that the poor rates should be paid out of the tithes . Further , under the Jewish law the tithe only of the increase could be taken . It was clearly the spirit and intention of that law that tithes should not be claimed where the \ alue of the produce does not equal the . cost of cultivation . Here , however , in England , if a man sell three bushels of wheat , and have such bad success as to reap only the same quantity , the tithe of his three bushels is taken by the church .
IT It would be well , however , if instead of a thirtieth , the clergy of this country would be content with a tenth , for in many cases under the present system they receive a fifth . My neighbour paid last autumn a tithe of his potatoes , and upon the nine-tenths which were left fed his pigs during the winter ; this spring he has paid tithes upon his pigs , and thus the same crop of potatoes was twice tithed . The same individual will twice pay tithe of hay , for the hay which has been already tithed , will be given to his cows , and will a second time be tithed when converted into milk . It is unnecessary to compare the two systems further to show how essentially different was the tithe system instituted by Moses to the noxious impost which prevails in this country . Theta .
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CHAPTER IV . Grapnel . And he is fairly goiie ? Schoolmaster . Fairly or foully , Gone he is , Sir . Grapnel . Then he will ne ' er return . Schoolmaster . Why think you so ? You speak as 'twere your wish . Grapnel . I care not how—The sea will swallow him , or he will hang—But not return—Schoolmaster . I do not wish your prophecy may prove Your gift . Old Pi . ay . I had complotted with a boy , almost my only companion , that we should abscond together The precise hour was to depend on Jjis convenience : in the interim , I carefully noted down , from Patterson ^ book of roads , every turn we should take on our route to Liverpool . I had marked the distances and gentlemen ' s seats , and all other distinguishing points of the journey—so that I was prepared with my maps effectually to preclude the necessity of inquiring a foot of the road , though I had never been three
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AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF PEL . VERJUICE .
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Autobiography of Pel . Verjuice . 529
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 529, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/17/
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