 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1914 - 158 strani
...and is granted in India in like cases. 1 Rice, however, is sent from Lower Burma into India proper. Finance was the standing difficulty of the Roman as...reducing the rent derivable from the land. The terrible pestilence of the second century AD brought down population, and was followed by a famine. The eastern... | |
 | James Bryce Bryce (Viscount) - 1914 - 156 strani
...and is granted in India in like cases. ‘Rice, however, is sent from Lower Burma into India proper. Finance was the standing difficulty of the Roman as...reducing the rent derivable from the land. The terrible pestilence of the second century AD brought down population, and was followed by a famine. The eastern... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - 1926 - 336 strani
...possession of the Empire did not stimulate continuous industrial enterprise. When the Empire fell the com1 " Heavy taxation and possibly the exhaustion of the...abandonment of farms, reducing the rent derivable from the land."—Bryce, Human and British Empires, p. 76. " To make the agriculture of a district more prosperous... | |
 | John Lawrence Hammond - 1926 - 306 strani
...possession of the Empire did not stimulate continuous industrial enterprise. When the Empire fell the com1K Heavy taxation and possibly the exhaustion of the...abandonment of farms, reducing the rent derivable from the land."—Bryee, Roman and British Empires, p. 76. " To make the agriculture of a district more prosperous... | |
 | 1914 - 498 strani
...resources. Rome lost its army and its navy from inability to pay for them. ' Finance,' says Lord Bryce, ' was the standing difficulty of the Roman as it is...may ' be said to have perished from want of revenue. Arduous as the task of the Roman administrators may have been, it was in several respects much easier... | |
 | 1914 - 1248 strani
...its palmy days, the Empire finally perished from the want of revenue. Heavy taxation, together with the exhaustion of the soil, led to the abandonment...farms, reducing the rent derivable from the land. For many years India, as Mr. Bryce admits, has been '• painfully near the limit of her taxable resources.... | |
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Finance was the standing difficulty of the Roman as it is of the Anglo-Indian administrator. Indeed, the Roman Empire may be said to have perished from want of revenue. Heavy taxation, and possibly the exhaustion of the soil, led to the abandonment of... 