In the kingdom of Great Britain, where all the ostentatious apparatus of monarchy is to be provided for, not above a fifteenth part of the annual income of the nation is appropriated to the class of
expenses last mentioned; the other fourteen fifteenths are absorbed in the payment of the interest of debts contracted for carrying on the wars in which that country has been engaged, and in the maintenance of fleets and armies.
Eustace, of the estimated
expenses of the whole proceeding.
Passengers can remain on board of the steamer, at all ports, if they desire, without additional
expense, and all boating at the
expense of the ship.
In the first case this liberality is dangerous, in the second it is very necessary to be considered liberal; and Caesar was one of those who wished to become pre-eminent in Rome; but if he had survived after becoming so, and had not moderated his
expenses, he would have destroyed his government.
By this rule the national government's
expenses were $90,000 a year, or about $250 a day.
It's an awfu' reflection--ye canna hae any thing to do wi' the sex they ca' the opposite sex without its being an
expense to ye.
His wife's staying away in the country was very agreeable to Stepan Arkadyevitch from every point of view: it did the children good, it decreased
expenses, and it left him more at liberty.
"Other great and inevitable
expenses too we have had on first coming to Norland.
Notwithstanding my need of money and clothing, I was very happy in the fact that I had secured enough money to pay my travelling
expenses back to Hampton.
"If I knew the items of election
expenses I could scare him.
Therefore extraordinary
expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion; for voluntary undoing, may be as well for a man's country, as for the kingdom of heaven.
The undertaker, instructed to spare no
expense, provided long-tailed black horses, with black palls on their backs and black plumes upon their foreheads; coachmen decorated with scarves and jack-boots, black hammercloths, cloaks, and gloves, with many hired mourners, who, however, would have been instantly discharged had they presumed to betray emotion, or in any way overstep their function of walking beside the hearse with brass-tipped batons in their hands.