Her public
contributions amounted to the sum of 216,000 florins-- a perfect godsend.
Again, thanking you for your kind
contribution, and hoping to receive more from you in the near future, we remain, etc."
Would the convention have been impartial or consistent, if they had rejected the slaves from the list of inhabitants, when the shares of representation were to be calculated, and inserted them on the lists when the tariff of
contributions was to be adjusted?
In Julie's set, as in many other circles in Moscow, it had been agreed that they would speak nothing but Russian and that those who made a slip and spoke French should pay fines to the Committee of Voluntary
Contributions.
Their refusal would be too plausible a pretext to the complaining States to withhold their
contributions, not to be embraced with avidity; and the non-compliance of these States with their engagements would be a ground of bitter discussion and altercation.
When the providore has received these
contributions, he divides them according to the number of persons, and the want they are in: the proportion they observe in this distribution is twenty pots of beer, ten of mead, and one cow to a hundred loaves.
The Cretans conducted their public meals better than the Lacedaemonians, for at Lacedsemon each individual was obliged to furnish what was assessed upon him; which if he could not do, there was a law which deprived him of the rights of a citizen, as has been already mentioned: but in Crete they were furnished by the community; for all the corn and cattle, taxes and
contributions, which the domestic slaves were obliged to furnish, were divided into parts and allotted to the gods, the exigencies of the state, and these public meals; so that all the men, women, and children were maintained from a common stock.
Then we would talk of agents and the offers they had obtained for us; of editors and the sort of
contributions they welcomed, how much they paid a thousand, and whether they paid promptly or otherwise.
of us will join any organization for the prevention of cruelty to animals, and by our words and acts and
contributions work to prevent the perpetration of cruelties on animals.
His
contributions to our funds have been magnificent; his advice, his sympathy, invaluable.
It is one of the most striking and important of the century's
contributions to medical science.
He likes to write, and he'll give a tone to our contributions and keep us from being sentimental, don't you see?
He certainly did add `spirit' to the meetings, and `a tone' to the paper, for his orations convulsed his hearers and his contributions were excellent, being patriotic, classical, comical, or dramatic, but never sentimental.
Miss Davidson again began the work of securing in various ways small
contributions for the new building from the white and coloured people in and near Tuskegee.
Wait, our plan already allows for Roth deferrals, isn't that the same as after-tax
contributions? While Roth and After-Tax
contributions are both made by the employee and are taxed in the year they are made, how the earnings on the two
contribution types are handled is very different.
