Granting monopolies in concession constitutes a market-conform alternative to taxation for the state, while the crown sometimes bestowed a monopoly as an outrageous gift.

those men who set up for morality without regard to religion, are generally virtuous but in part

For this day ought to promise not so much mulch as yesterday or all the other yesterns all back in a row of boredowndom.

Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.