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8296. TAXATION, French.—[further continued] .

Nor should we wonder
at * * * [the] pressure [for a fixed constitution
in 1788-9] when we consider the
monstrous abuses of power under which
* * * [the French] people were ground to
powder; when we pass in review * * * the oppressions of the tithes, the tailles, the
corvées, the gabelles, the farms and the barriers.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)