At all events, Lord Grenville declined to let us in, except in a very limited way and under most onerous conditions.The right of search and the right of impressment were simply the rights of the powerful over the weak.…Cited from George Washington, Vol. II, by Henry Cabot Lodge
If the nobles had few political rights, they had plenty of public privileges.They were exempt from the most onerous taxes, and the best places under the government were reserved for them.Therefore every man who rose to eminence or to wealth in France strove to enter their ranks, and since nobility was a purchasable commodity, through the multiplication of venal offices which conferred it, none who had much money to spend failed to secure the coveted rank.…Cited from The Eve of the French Revolution, Edward J. Lowell
A labor tax was also enforced, and it was perhaps the most onerous, because it returned almost regularly every moon for a certain number of days.Cited from Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands, Charles Nordhoff
Louise of Savoy was indeed now displaying courage and ability.News shortly arrived that the King had been transferred to Madrid, and that Charles demanded most onerous conditions for the release of his prisoner.At this juncture Francis wrote to his mother that he was very ill, and begged of her to come to him.…Cited from Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. I. (of V.), by Margaret, Queen Of Navarre
The office cast upon him was great, its duties most onerous, and the obscurity of his past career afforded no guarantee of his ability to discharge them.Cited from Great Britain and the American Civil War, by Ephraim Douglass Adams
The rigid enforcement of the laws passed against retainers in former reigns, but now made more penal, strengthened the king and reduced the power of the nobles.Their estates were relieved of a most onerous charge, and the lands freed from the burden of supporting the army of the state.…Cited from Landholding In England, by Joseph Fisher
This plainly appears from his life written by so many worthy persons.His Bishopric was, indeed, no sinecure, being a most onerous burden.…Cited from Spirit of St. Francis de Sales, Jean Pierre Camus
After this the various committees of the Board have to give in the result of their deliberations, and the representative of the ladies' boarding-out committee presents a record of the work accomplished.These various committees at times are burdened with the most onerous labours, for upon them falls the duty of verifying all the petty details of management.Every pound of soap, or candles, scrubbing-brushes, and similar domestic items, pass under their inspection, not only the payments for them, but the actual articles, or samples of them, being examined.…Cited from Hodge and His Masters, by Richard Jefferies
The enormous debt, with which Clive and his colleagues had saddled him, crushed him.The sum was so vast that it was only by imposing the most onerous taxation upon his people that he was enabled to pay it, and the discontent excited proved his destruction.Omichund had no greater reason for satisfaction, at the part which he had played in the ruin of his country.…Cited from With Clive in India, by G. A. Henty
They will not submit to their full share of taxation.When they advance money on the pledge of some income, it is on the most onerous terms, so that at least one quarter of the revenue of Mexico is used up in interest or usury.Long experience has reduced the business of shaving the revenue to a system.…Cited from Mexico and its Religion, by Robert A. Wilson
Preaching was the least of the chaplains' duties; burying was the most onerous.Anglo-Indian society, cut off from London, itself not much better, by a six months' voyage, was corrupt.…Cited from Life of William Carey, by George Smith
That caricature is of a piece with the old fable of the lean Frenchman, starving upon frogs, and capable only of dancing and grimacing.An alderman of the City of London has most onerous duties to discharge, for which he expects no other remuneration than the approval of his own conscience and the respect of his fellow-citizens.It is matter of public notoriety, that in the year 1834 the Corporation cheerfully complied with the requisitions of the Government with regard to the business of the Central Criminal Court.…Cited from The Corporation of London, William Ferneley Allen
But the prince-president of the ministers and chancellor of the empire was loaded down with duties -- in his cabinet, in his office, and in the parliament -- most onerous to bear, and which no other man in Germany was equal to.His burdens at times were intolerable: his labors were prodigious, and the opposition he met with was extremely irritating to a man accustomed to have his own way in everything.…Cited from Beacon Lights of History, Volume X, by John Lord
Several provisions of a liberal tenor were also made, to encourage emigration to the country.The new settlers were to be exempted from some of the most onerous, but customary taxes, as the alcabala, or to be subject to them only in a mitigated form.The tax on the precious metals drawn from mines was to be reduced, at first, to one tenth, instead of the fifth imposed on the same metals when obtained by barter or by rapine.…Cited from History Of The Conquest Of Peru, by Wm H. Prescott
The rainfall is uncertain and scanty; thus the country is a desert, dependent entirely upon irrigation.Although cultivation is simply impossible without a supply of water, one of the most onerous taxes is that upon the sageer or water-wheel, with which the fields are irrigated on the borders of the Nile.It would appear natural that, instead of a tax, a premium should be offered for the erection of such means of irrigation, which would increase the revenue by extending cultivation, the produce of which might bear an impost.…Cited from In the Heart of Africa, by Samuel White Baker
It was night now, and they were sitting by the fire in Miss Valery's dressing-room.It had been one of Anne's best days; a wonderfully good day; she had walked about the house, and given several orders to her delighted servants, who, old as they were, would have obeyed the most onerous commands for the pleasure of seeing their mistress strong enough to give them.…Cited from Agatha's Husband, by Dinah Maria Craik (AKA: Dinah Maria Mulock)
But the action of Commissioner Lin revealed the truth that the Chinese were not to be satisfied with a single triumph.The more easily they obtained their objects in the opium matter the more anxious did they become to impress the foreigners with a sense of their inferiority, and to force them to accept the most onerous and unjust conditions for the sake of a continuance of the trade.None the less, Captain Elliot went out of his way to tie his own hands, and to bind his own government, so far as he could, to co-operate with the emperor's officials in the suppression of the opium traffic.…Cited from China, by Demetrius Charles Boulger
The victor returned to her dock to make ready for a fresh onslaught.The effect was profound; it seemed no exaggeration to suppose that the irresistible conqueror would pass through the United States fleet at Hampton Roads and, speeding along the coast, reduce New York to the most onerous terms or to ashes.…Cited from The Lincoln Story Book, by Henry L. Williams
Major-General Sir Nevil Macready, the Adjutant-General, has also been confronted with most onerous and difficult tasks in connection with disciplinary arrangements and the preparation of casualty lists.He has been indefatigable in his exertions to meet the difficult situations which arose.…Cited from Sir John French, by Cecil Chisholm
The policy of the Commission is the speedy abolition or reduction of all taxes which tend to check development.This policy is eminently wise and statesman-like; for while it removes some of our most onerous burdens, it gives a stimulus to the creation of wealth that must annually alleviate our taxes, and is entitled to the approval of an enlightened nation.The second great measure of the Commission is to increase to five cents the tax on cotton, which has, since the close of our last financial year, begun to aid our revenue.…Cited from The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866, by Various