It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income.

[he] then goes on to credit us with giving him some of the best examples of semordnilaps.

Such merimake holy saints doth queme, But we here sytten as drownd in a dreme.

What a tremendous affair it was, the world of Homer, with its indeterminate boundaries, vast regions, and immeasurable distances. The Mediterranean and the Euxine were illimitable stretches of ocean waste over which years could be spent in endless wandering.