Excerpt from Calculations of the Present Taxes: Yearly Paid by a Family of Each Rank, Degree, or Class This unhappily feems to be the befi Reafon that can truly be given for fu-fi'ering the thorny Cares of Majefiy to be fo multiplied, and the Tranquility of this Nation to be (0 difiurbed, by an ill-groundedo pinion that might have been crufhed in its Infancy, by a Series of correfponding and u-ncontrovertible Facts-3 but this not being done, the Blellings of good Government were depreciated in Imagination, as the Charge of fupporting it was magnified by Fiction; and no fooner was the Prefent Jufi and N eceftary V'far entered? Into, than there appeared feveral Writers to put the People in Mind how much of their Incomes were paid in or for Taxes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.