Thursday 14 January 2010

Book 2, chapter 7, paragraph 18

[De la richesse commerciale, Sismondi, 1803, Original, 101-102]

   L’on ne peut douter que le Gouvernement ne profite de l’aisance que lui a rendu la paix, pour supprimer un impôt qui excite des réclamations si générales, et pourvoir de quelqu’autre manière aux dépenses de l’Etat.

[Translation]

   There is no doubt that the government profits from the comfort given to it by the peace, due to the abolishment of a tax which provokes such general complains and to the defrayment of the state’s expenditure in another way.