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 Talents, natural, not so various in different men as is supposed, i. 58.

Tartars, their manner of conducting war, iii. 44; their invasions dreadful, 45.

Tavernier, his account of the diamond mines of Golconda and Visiapour, i. 265.

Taxes, the origin of, under the feudal government, ii. 92.—The sources from whence they must arise, iii. 224; unequal taxes, 225; ought to be clear and certain, 226; ought to be levied at the times most convenient for payment, ibid.; ought to take as little as possible out of the pockets of the people more than is brought into the public treasury, 227; how they may be made more burdensome to the people than beneficial to the sovereign, 228; the land tax of Great Britain, 229; land tax at Venice, 232; improvements suggested for a land tax, ibid.; mode of assessing the land tax in Prussia, 238; tithes a very unequal tax, and a discouragement to improvement, 241; operation of tax on house rent, payable by the tenant, 246; a proportionable tax on houses, the best source of revenue, 250; how far the revenue from stock is a proper object of taxation, 256; whether interest of money is proper for taxation, 257–258; how taxes are paid at Hamburg, 261; in Switzerland, 262; taxes upon particular employments, 264; poll-taxes, 270; taxes, badges of liberty, 271; taxes upon the transfer of property, 273; stamp duties, 276–277; on whom the several kinds of taxes principally fall, 278; taxes upon the wages of labor, 281; capitation taxes, 286; taxes upon consumable commodities, 289; upon necessaries, 291; upon luxuries, ibid.; principal necessaries taxed, 294; absurdities in taxation, 295; different parts of Europe very highly taxed, 296–297; two different methods of taxing consumable commodities, 297; Sir Matthew Decker's scheme of taxation considered, 298; excise, 300; customs, 301; taxation sometimes not an instrument of revenue, but of monopoly, 305; improvements of the customs suggested, 306–307; taxes paid in the price of a commodity little adverted to, 325–326; on luxuries, the good and bad properties of, 326; bad effects of farming them out, 336; how the finances of France might be reformed, 339; French and English systems of taxation compared, 340; new taxes always generate discontent, 364; how far the British system of taxation might be applicable to all the different provinces of the empire, 382; such a plan might speedily discharge the national debt, 388–389.

Tea, great importation and consumption of that drug in Britain, i. 307–308.

Teachers in universities, tendency of endowments to diminish their application, iii. 137; the jurisdictions to which they are subject, little calculated to quicken their diligence, 138; are frequently obliged to gain protection by servility, 139; defects in their establishments, 140; teachers among the ancient Greeks and Romans, superior to those of modern times, 159–160; circumstances which draw good ones to, or drain