The Company And the Crown
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Such were the objects to which, in those days, the taxation of a State was too often primarily directed. Some there were indeed, like Shahjehan, who exalted its use in the construction of buildings dedicated to their titular deities, or priceless mausoleums, like the Taj Mehal, rearing its proud head through three suc- ceeding decades, and swallowing up more wealth than could have been raked together, at that early date, even by oppression, for any other than a religious object. Yet both palati...al and ecclesiastical structures, though essentially unremunerative in their character, may at the FINANCE AND PUBLIC WORKS. 231 time have rendered service by the employment of hordes of labom-ers and the consequent spread of skilled work- manship ; l3iit their termination was invariably followed by the results necessarily attendant on a heavier taxation, both in men and money, than the circumstances of the land permitted. Masses of men had been brought together to complete with all speed some shrine to an emperor's patron saint, in order that the old man's ashes might be laid upon the altar of his own creative fancy ; but almost ere the rino-ino; of the hammers was hushed in its completion the country fell a prey to famine and the sword.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Such were the objects to which, in those days, the taxation of a State was too often primarily directed. Some there were indeed, like Shahjehan, who exalted its use in the construction of buildings dedicated to their titular deities, or priceless mausoleums, like the Taj Mehal, rearing its proud head through three suc- ceeding decades, and swallowing up more wealth than could have been raked together, at that early date, even by oppression, for any other than a religious object. Yet both palati...al and ecclesiastical structures, though essentially unremunerative in their character, may at the FINANCE AND PUBLIC WORKS. 231 time have rendered service by the employment of hordes of labom-ers and the consequent spread of skilled work- manship ; l3iit their termination was invariably followed by the results necessarily attendant on a heavier taxation, both in men and money, than the circumstances of the land permitted. Masses of men had been brought together to complete with all speed some shrine to an emperor's patron saint, in order that the old man's ashes might be laid upon the altar of his own creative fancy ; but almost ere the rino-ino; of the hammers was hushed in its completion the country fell a prey to famine and the sword.
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