"Indebtedness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... presents itself in connection with the subject of mortgaged farm holdings. In 1890, the mortgaged indebtedness of the farmers of the United States amounted to the immense sum of $1,085,995,960, a sum almost equal to the value of the entire wheat crop. Now, while a mortgage is certainly not suggestive of independence, it may be either a sign of decreasing or increasing independence. It ...
— Socialism - A Summary and Interpretation of Socialist Principles • John Spargo
... embraced in the Steward's order, and paid at the same rate as the substance of the bill, and should you embrace this compassionate tender, in the brief period of sixteen weeks you will be at the end of this indebtedness. ...
— Shakespeare's Insomnia, And the Causes Thereof • Franklin H. Head
... synthesis which Rmnanda had sought to establish in thought. Rmnanda appears to have accepted him, and though Mohammedan legends speak of the famous Sf Pr, Takk of Jhans, as Kabr's master in later life, the Hindu saint is the only human teacher to whom in his songs he acknowledges indebtedness. ...
— Songs of Kabir • Rabindranath Tagore (trans.)
... of oppression which the mother country had forced upon their necks. The multiplication of the negro population was considered as a barrier to the success of their measures, and as most dangerous to virtue and the welfare of the country. It was increasing the indebtedness of the citizens to foreign merchants, and augmenting the balance of trade against the colonies. But there was no settled policy in reference to the future disposition of the colored population. Feelings ...
— Cotton is King and The Pro-Slavery Arguments • Various
... 122 words we find no less than 46 are of foreign origin. Though this large proportion sufficiently shows the amount of our indebtedness to the classical languages for our abstract or specialised scientific terms, the absolutely indisputable nature of the English substratum remains clearly evident. The tongue which we use to-day is enriched by valuable loan words from many separate sources; ...
— Early Britain - Anglo-Saxon Britain • Grant Allen
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