How To Use Impost In A Sentence
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It also means the expert deception of the senses by the tricks of a conjurer, so-called hocus-pocus and fraud, and a magician is either an evil-minded, superstitious mortal, fool enough to believe in charms, or an expert pretender and imposter of the first water, who cheats and deceives the people.
The light of Egypt; or, The science of the soul and the stars
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That list was obviously compiled by an imposter.
Times, Sunday Times
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[LC] "A plaine declaracon, how greatlie the ffarmours of the Tobacco impost have bene endam - aged by that ffarme, and what proffitt and benefitt their labour & travell have brought to his Matie.
The Records of the Virginia Company of London
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Here there is no direct predication concerning Joe Smith, but only a predication of one of the alternatives conditionally on the other being denied, as, _If Joe Smith was not a prophet he was an impostor_; or, _If he was not an impostor, he was a prophet_.
Logic Deductive and Inductive
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Sometimes the country has to take precedence over a do-nothing imposter and pretender to the throne.
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I guess that proves he’s an impostor, or that public funding is worse than the bankroll from the utilities.
Waldo Jaquith - Patrick Michaels: appointed by…nobody?
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From the beginning, professions mobilised themselves in their defence against quacks and impostors through associations or institutes.
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Vnde missarum sacrificia, quibus uulgo dicebatur, Sacerdotem offerre Christum in remissionem poena aut culpae pro uiuis et defunctis, blasphema figmenta sunt, et pernitiosae imposturae.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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He ordered detailed cadastral surveys in order to determine whether a tithe of produce or a fixed impost on agricultural land would be the most efficient method of taxing agricultural revenues.
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Biscay, or off the storm-lashed rocks of Finisterre, we set down the author in question as a gross impostor, and had a mind to quarrel with him for leading us into this cruel error.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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impostors have tried to interlope on the action
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Article I, Section 8 allows for the collection of ‘taxes, duties, imposts and excises’ but only ‘for revenue necessary’ to finance the government and not to protect any business or industry from international competition.
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There is the further expedient of "stilting" the cross arches, that is, making the real arch spring from a point above the impost and building the lower portion of it vertical, as shown in Fig. 98.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 647, May 26, 1888
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On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
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In my previous impostures in the English department, I had picked up some of the rudiments of Romanticism, but one idea that intrigued me was Edmund Burke's theory of the sublime.
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The most interesting part is the five-sided apse, with in each side one long lancet window, and above it two small windows separated by an impost colonnette.
The South of France—East Half
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The policy of their chiefs has on this occasion been admired, and might surely be excused; but a pious baud is seldom produced by the cool conspiracy of many persons; and a voluntary impostor might depend on the support of the wise and the credulity of the people.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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As Kipling put it in his poem: ‘If you can meet with triumph and disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same…’
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Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society.
The Federalist Papers
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Sometimes the road to illusion is created by hoaxers, people who engage in deliberate acts of trickery with the aim of proving how gullible other people can be when a skillful imposture is presented.
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On his part, he had no doubts that the claimant was an impostor and his supporters fools and rogues.
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Oxygen thieves, vermin and blowflies is how one particular group of veterans regard these imposters, running their own investigations of frauds and posting the results on their website.
ARTHUR REX CRANE
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To me, it looked like albino broccoli and no matter how much cheese you added to a steaming plate of it (because growing up that was the only way it was served — smothered in cheddar cheese), it felt like an imposter, a genetic mistake that no amount of dairy could improve.
Archive 2007-10-01
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An audience of both genders tries to discover whom the imposters are, by asking questions and analyzing the panel members' answers.
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I am not entirely comfortable with the implication that feeling like a fraud or an imposter with regards to intelligence or smarts or academic achievement is something that is unique to women or more prevalent in women.
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In fact, on closer inspection he still looked like an impostor.
PROSPECT HILL
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What I called an "imposture" for a critical edition was precisely the impression given of a single, clean, definitive text in large type.
'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
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Psychologists who have studied the phenomenon describe a condition called pseudologia fantastica: the blurring of fact and fantasy so thoroughly that the imposter almost convinces himself that he is a war hero.
Bill Burke 12/2001
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By what is called the impost 1692, a duty of five and twenty per cent., of the rate or value, was laid upon all French goods; while the goods of other nations were, the greater part of them, subjected to much lighter duties, seldom exceeding five per cent.
III. Book IV. Of the Extraordinary Restraints upon the Importation of Goods of Almost All Kinds, from Those Countries with which the Balance Is Supposed to Be Disadvantageous
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This "imposture," in Rosen's opinion, has an intimate connection with bibliography, though he never explains how bibliography causes the editor to take down the 1850 Prelude from the shelf (an easy, objective choice, according to Rosen) instead of the 1805 model (an awkward, subjective motion).
'Romantic Originals': An Exchange
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King John was keen to fight; the States General gave him the means for carrying on war, by establishing the odious "gabelle" on salt, and other imposts.
Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
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This is not Doctor Malcolm, he is an impostor.
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(Survey Report 6800 summarizing Adm. 68/194, Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [2] The impost was the duty imposed by Britain on imported tobacco, and the cocket (for which a fee was charged) was the certified document issued that the impost had been paid.
Letter from Robert Carter to Micajah Perry, April 12, 1728
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But it is an impostor, a sort of Toad Hall that pretends to an amplitude and height it hasn't got.
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Ruha did not hesitate; she swung her arm up backward and drove the tip of her jambiya deep into the impostor's torso.
The Veiled Dragon
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Why his masculine whore, now the rotten diseases of the south, the guts griping ruptures: loades a gravell in the back, lethergies, could palsies, rawe eies, durtrotte [n] livers, whissing lungs, bladders full of impostume.
The Historie of Troylus and Cresseida (1609 Edition)
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According to the GAO, the majority of passport fraud uncovered in 2004 involved imposters using legitimate identification documents belonging to someone else.
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They are so unbelievably horrible, so appallingly unmusical, so dogmatically insensitive to the magic of the art, that they qualify as crowned heads of anti-music, even as the impostor popes went down in history as ‘anti-popes’.
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With his own unconscious collusion, she had used him treacherously in an imposture which denied his separate identity and threatened to undo entirely the life work of individuation separation implied in identity formation.
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We do not accuse the authors of the imposture of relativism.
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The newspaper expressed the hope that the Congress-led government's new 2 percent tax impost would be used to address the problems.
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To be sure, force may no longer take the form of plunder and extortion, and fraud may no longer appear as deliberate imposture and chicanery.
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Oh,'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got,
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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I still get stuck for a half-second when I hear about l'ancien champion du monde (He doesn't look that old.) or l'actuel ministre du défense (Is there an imposter out there?).
Faux amis - French Word-A-Day
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If you poke them a bit (and maybe buy them a few drinks), many academics will confess to sometimes feeling like impostors perennially threatened with humiliating exposure.
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We feare more the cure then the disease, the surgion then the paine, the stroke then the impostume.
A Discourse of Life and Death, by Mornay; and Antonius by Garnier
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In 1871, Walter W Skeat published a complete and critical edition of Chatterton's poems, carefully dividing the poet's acknowledged work from his medieval impostures.
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A credit file "security freeze" is a preventive tool to help you avoid identity theft and to block impostors from using your personal information to establish credit.
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Many of her class set out by being impostors, and end by becoming enthusiasts, or hold a kind of darkling conduct between both lines, unconscious almost when they are cheating themselves, or when imposing on others.
Chapter XLVII
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The budgets usually showed deficits, and the imposts of all kinds were raised by tyrannical farmers-general.
The Psychology of Revolution
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The heterogeneous triflings which now, I am very sorry to say, occupy so much of our time, will be neglected; fashion's votaries will silently fall off; dishonest exertions for rank in society will be scorned; extravagance in toilet will be detested; that meager and worthless pride of station will be forgotten; the honest earnings of dependents will be paid; popular demagogues crushed; impostors unpatronized; true genius sincerely encouraged; and, above all, pawned integrity redeemed!
History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I
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Liege (or rather Tongres, for Liege was not then built) that she was spreading wide her tenets, unpersecuted and unrestrained, for she was too far removed from idolatry and imposture to be regarded.
Olla Podrida
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The financial impost of war would blow out a US budget deficit already escalating rapidly and dangerously.
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His life-sized but nonetheless obviously fake trees are colored to emphasize the imposture - jarring industrial green or gleaming silver and bronze, for instance.
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Everyone thought I knew what I was doing, but I felt like a fraud, an impostor, the Great Pretender!
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Moore, incidentally, had incurred zero penalties during that time, exploding the notion that such imposts are inevitable.
Richard Hughes the dark horse in race for Flat jockeys' championship | Lydia Hislop
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That list was obviously compiled by an imposter.
Times, Sunday Times
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Her harshest critics consider her to be ‘one of most accomplished, ingenious, and interesting impostors in history.’
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Veterans call them by all sorts of names: phonies, fakes, imposters, wannabes.
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It is able to authenticate the caller's identity, or to flag possible impostors, with a high degree of accuracy.
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He turned detective, tracked down the impostor and called the police.
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Well I just came from the deconstructive unconference cumfy cushion session on Silicone the New, Better Silicon, or Regional Imposter, and they confirmed any class of chemical compounds consisting of long chains of alternating silicon and oxygen atoms, with two organic radicals, typically a methyl (CH3) and a phenyl (C6H5) group, attached to each silicon atom is a totally better, more collaborative API.
Melbourne's Silicone Beach.
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It could not be at the fact that, for all your hollow proclamations of the auteur's commitment to the work alone, this imposture is actually an artifical bolstering of a self-esteem that's actually quite frail and flimsy.
How Not to be a Writer
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If the assumed "mediumship" of this woman was not an imposture, some of the many people who have visited her for the purpose of getting communications from their spirit-friends would have been gratified.
The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages
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So far as tribute was a sign of dependance and inferiority, the impost was a hardship; but for this they who paid it are to be blamed rather than those who received.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete
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Suspicion is first aroused if breeding wrens find a nestling home alone, as the imposter will eject all the natural offspring.
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Purple Hearts are only given to American soldiers killed or injured in battle, and there have recently been cases of impostors using fake military medals to get ahead in business.
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Some studies even suggest that, taking into account the economic growth their labor has made possible, and the sales taxes and other imposts they have paid, undocumented aliens have contributed more to government coffers than they have drawn down.
The GOP's Immigration Fixation
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This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
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Needing vehicular transportation I hired a motorbike taxi, agreeing to his 30 baht impost.
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4 By this false faitour, who unworthy wears faitour > impostor, cheat wears > bears, carries
The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
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Thousands of complaints pour in annually to the FBI and civilian groups about impostors flaunting store-bought medals. ...
Media Coverage September 2009
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He felt like an impostor among all those intelligent people, as if he had no right to be there.
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I have always told you the consequence of attending to the minutiae, where art (or imposture, as the ill-mannered would call it) is designed — your linen rumpled and soily, when you wait upon her — easy terms these — just come to town — remember (as formerly) to loll, to throw out your legs, to stroke and grasp down your ruffles, as if of significance enough to be careless.
Clarissa Harlowe
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In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
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An impostor could not pretend to have a good search engine.
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Here are five of the wildest records ever chronicled by The Guinness Book of Records, plus five impostors.
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The impost is the highest weight assignment since Favorite Trick received 128 pounds, after being named the 1997 Horse of the Year.
NY Daily News
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These rapacious relations managed to poison her ears, arguing the new man was an impostor out to swindle her and them.
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And what's the security systems and access to saleyards will be impostered on transporters and buyers but also the producers themselves.
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And when you only have Democratic imposters from the planet Lets-Go-Windsurfing-Instead, you wind up calling a mutation like Steve King, "Mr. Congressman." seeya
Welcome To Iowa!
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These ‘imposters’ are referred to as antipopes and are considered to be agents of the devil.
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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This man is known to the federal legal system as a military imposter of such magnitude as to warrant federal charges and prosecution in a court of law, and to necessitate special stipulations precluding his making those military claims in any way, shape, or form.
JOHN SACROSANTE aka JOHN HAYDEN aka STEVEN
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The bruise imposthumated, and afterwards turned to a stinking ulcer, which made everybody shy to come near her, yet she wanted not the help of many able physicians, who attended very diligently, and did what men of skill could do; but all to no purpose, for her condition was now quite desperate, all regular physicians and her nearest relations having given her over.
History of John Bull
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More specifically, the Estonian model, like the other eastern European states with flat taxes, retains social security payments as a separate impost.
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This space was ornamented with low relief sculpture of winged sun disks and wreaths located on the pedimented impost blocks between the arches.
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This article observes that imposture in Copyright Law is the infringement of the right of signature of authors.
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It is, we think, impossible to compare the sentence which prohibits a State from laying imposts, or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws, with that which authorizes Congress to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers of the general government, without feeling a conviction that the convention understood itself to change materially the meaning of the word necessary, by prefixing the word absolutely.
Opinion of Chief Justice Marshall, in the Case of McCulloch vs. the State of Maryland
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'imposts' and 'subsidies' were so excessive that, in many villages, no assessments of 'tailles' were laid; the 'tithes' (on ecclesiastical property) were so high that the curates and vicars fled away, through fear of being imprisoned, and divine service ceased to be said in a large number of parishes adjoining this city of Caen: as in the villages of Plumetot, Periers, Sequeville, Puto, Soliers, and many others.
The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
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I am Lirael, Daughter of the Clayr," pronounced Lirael, her anger overriding her familiar feeling of being an imposter.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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In the case of property purchase from a private citizen, the buyer must pay a registration impost and a land registry tax.
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It is, then, not only the impostor's willingness to deceive on which their success depends, but the fact that we are on the whole astonishingly trusting and generally do not expect to be lied to.
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The two imposters tried to appear at their ease.
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Two professed Lives of Mahomet have been composed by Dr. Prideaux (Life of Mahomet, seventh edition, London, 1718, in octavo) and the count de Boulainvilliers, (Vie de Mahomed, Londres, 1730, in octavo:) but the adverse wish of finding an impostor or a hero, has too often corrupted the learning of the doctor and the ingenuity of the count.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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From that point of view, we have very real reservations about the additional 5c per litre excise impost that will arise from this bill.
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And the very day before his end, it being told him that the magistrate Granius deferred the payment of a public debt, in expectation of his death, he sent for him to his house, and placing his attendants about him, caused him to be strangled; but through the straining of his voice and body, the imposthume breaking, he lost a great quantity of blood.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
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Inside, the most striking feature is the Saxon chancel arch, with its through stones (up the sides), imposts (off which the arch springs), and through-stone voussoirs forming the arch itself.
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On the way the impostor went missing herself, perhaps returned to her own identity.
THE QUEST FOR K
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In the words of Article I, Section 8, Congress had the general power ‘to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises.’
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On this point, our decisions have been conformed to only so far as to tell us, 'This impost shall no longer be called talliage; it shall be a free grant.'
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 3
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Practitioners of their religion were either sunk in superstition or hypocrites and impostors.
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What the monologue thus conceives is an experience under negation, never fully bound in the present, another mode of imposture.
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Have the Australian media ANY interest in this imposture…?
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Poets, my friend, are the most absolute impostors, .. they melodize their rhymed music on phases of emotion they have never experienced; as for instance our Lameate yonder will string a pretty sonnet on the despair of love, he knowing nothing of despair, .. he will write of a broken heart, his own being unpricked by so much as a pin's point of trouble; and he will speak in his verso of dying for love when he would not let his little finger ache for the sake of a woman who worshipped him!
Ardath
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An audience of both genders tries to discover whom the imposters are, by asking questions and analyzing the panel members' answers.
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(Admiralty 68/194, ff. 82r, abstracted in Survey Report 6801, Virginia Colonial Records Project, Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, University of Virginia.) [4] The impost was the duty imposed by Britain on imported tobacco, and the cocket (for which a fee was charged) was the certified document issued that the impost had been paid.
Letter from Robert Carter to John Pemberton and Company, June 1, 1728
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It is a most apt and elegant expression of the Roman emperor Marcus Antioninus to this purpose, who says, "Such an inordinate self-love is like an ulcer, or imposthumated part, that draweth all to itself, and starveth the body to which it belongs.
The Whole Works of the Rev. John Howe, M.A. with a Memoir of the Author. Vol. VI.
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When the satirist aims to deflate false heroes, imposters or charlatans, who claim a respect which is not their due, the vehicle he chooses for this is usually the mock-heroic.
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If we read Polidori's figurative vampirism as something more than self-pity, his "imposture" is less postmodern playfulness than it is something far more sinister--the "glamour of imposture" as something poisonous to both the performer and the performed.
The Little Professor:
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One day this imposter will wake up to find he lost America to the patriotic silent majority whot have woken from a deep slumber!
This Week’s White House Two-Minute Hate: insurance companies. - Moe_Lane’s blog - RedState
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A consultant, however, suggested that the acute and late onset in an otherwise psychiatrically well person, the delusions of impostors (Capgras syndrome) and real and false neighborhoods (reduplicative paramnesia), and her difficulties finding her way about the unit (spatial disorientation) possibly indicated a nondominant parietal lobe stroke.
The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry
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I knew there was no imposthume in my lungs, and I supposed the stitches were spasmodical.
Travels through France and Italy
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Second-hand cars, over there, are just so cheap, it is a crying shame that the impost of duty in importing these cars is so great.
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I am sorry, sir," replied that gentleman, "that you should think it necessary to apply the word imposture to any 'proceeding of mine.
The Evil Eye; Or, The Black Spector The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
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One of the reasons that military impersonation is tempting and relatively easy is the respect that military uniforms and regalia elicit from civilians and lower ranks, the kind of respect that the impostors crave.
ARTHUR REX CRANE
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a shameless imposter
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Ac volentes super his congruis remediis providere, prasdictos Indos et omnes alias gentes ad notitiam Christianorum imposterum deventuras, licet extra Fidem Christi existant sua libertate àc rerum suarum dominio privatos, seù privandos non esse.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings
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The Columbine is pleasing to the eye, as well in respect of the seemly (and not vulgar) shape as in regard of the azury colour thereof, and is holden to be very medicinable for the dissolving of imposthumations or swellings in the throat.
The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
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Any proposed increase had to be balanced with the limiting effect of the ability of the poor to pay for the goods, and the likelihood of rioting if the impost was seen as too onerous.
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While they will rise up against a vexatious impost, they crouch before a system of which the impost is the smallest evil.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VI (of X)—Great Britain and Ireland IV
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The whole mass of his body was turned unto universal rottenness; and, though living creatures, and boiled animals, were applied with the design of drawing out the vermin by the heat, by which a vast hive was opened, a second imposthume discovered a more prodigious swarm, as if his whole body was resolved into worms.
Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
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Writing in the Providence Gazette, “A Freeholder” advised that passage of the impost would shred the protections of local rights embodied in the Articles of Confederation, “at once destroying all the liberties of the several states, reducing them to so many provinces of Congress, and tending to the establishment of an aristocratical or monarchial government.”
Robert Morris
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Thus the blurring of reality and fiction comes full circle: the impostor now gets to play himself in a film depicting his imposture and its consequences.
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Prick therefore the imposthume at once, and, like wise surgeons, let out the offensive matter.
The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance
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When threatened with ‘a very painful experiment’ to uncover any secret, she confessed her imposture on December 7 and was charged as a ‘notorious and vile cheat’.
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Socrates concluded that the ethics experts of his time were impostors, or to be more precise, that they were flatterers who had a knack for telling affluent Athenians just what they wanted to hear.
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This one could be an impostor, maybe hired by Algie, to wipe out any opposition to the match.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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This new resource discovery algorithm can effectively restrain the imposture and pseudo service of P2P network, improve the reliability and security and decrease network load.
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The poor doctor hastened home, half dead with fear, and was put to bed in the apprehension of a new imposthume; instead of which, he found himself exceedingly recruited in his spirits, and his appetite much mended.
Travels through France and Italy
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[1] The impost was the duty imposed by Britain on imported tobacco, and the cocket (for which a fee was charged) was the certified document issued that the impost had been paid.
Letter from Robert Carter to John King, July 19, 1731
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The definitions will differentiate cheaper impostors from the best oil: those cold-pressed, pure, golden-hued products that lead connoisseurs to talk of grass tones, apple or nut flavors, and peppery finishes, in a language usually reserved for wines.
Feds To Begin Enforcing Olive Oil Designations
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In the eightieth year of her age she was seized with an inward burning fever, which wasted her insensibly by its intense heat; at the same time an imposthume was formed in her lungs; and a violent and most tormenting scurvy, attended with a corroding hideous stinking ulcer, ate away her jaws and mouth, and deprived her of her speech.
The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March
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Customs duty or tariff is an impost on goods crossing a frontier, its purpose being either to raise revenue or to protect home industries.
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Despite the efforts of leading Federalists, Antifederalists remained unconvinced that Congress would use an impost and excise before resorting to poll and direct taxes.
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With identity theft so rife, it would be too easy for imposters to hack accounts.
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That list was obviously compiled by an imposter.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is built of stock brick from various sources, and the piers are decorated by stone impost bands and rendered plinths.
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When the comptroller-general proposed to the king to abolish privileges, and assess the impost equally, renouncing the twentieths, diminishing the gabel, suppressing custom-houses in the interior and establishing provincial assemblies, Louis XVI. recognized an echo of his illustrious ministers.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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This was an immense sum that the federal government could not even begin to raise through tariffs and imposts.
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He calls for the magicians, who more than once had been detected in imposture.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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Article I and the Sixteenth Amendment of the Constitution only authorize four types of taxes -- excises, imposts, capitation taxes, and income taxes -- and specify that Congress is the branch with power to levy these taxes.
Ken Blackwell: Avoiding the Danger of a "Clean" BBA
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An unwavering sense of purpose, or destiny, motivates many impostors, and even exposure rarely lessens this desire.
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The e-Vote system must cope with a bewildering array of potential electoral chicanery: impostors, double voters, and enforcers.
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unmask the imposter
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The confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power.
The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria
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Per questo motivo ha impostato una curiosa pagina prima di accedere al sito.
Archive 2009-11-01
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Oh,'tis imposture all: And as no chemic yet the elixir got,
THE CALLIGRAPHER
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The pedimented and ornamented impost blocks between the arches used in his earlier capitols were notably absent.
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The quantity of taxes to be paid by the community must be the same in either case; with this advantage, if the provision is to be made by the Union that the capital resource of commercial imposts, which is the most convenient branch of revenue, can be prudently improved to a much greater extent under federal than under State regulation, and of course will render it less necessary to recur to more inconvenient methods; and with this further advantage, that as far as there may be any real difficulty in the exercise of the power of internal taxation, it will impose a disposition to greater care in the choice and arrangement of the means; and must naturally tend to make it a fixed point of policy in the national administration to go as far as may be practicable in making the luxury of the rich tributary to the public treasury, in order to diminish the necessity of those impositions which might create dissatisfaction in the poorer and most numerous classes of the society.
The Federalist Papers
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I'm a fake, a phony, a fraud, an impostor, and a charlatan of the worse degree.
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But even apart from the reactionary content of their politics, the dearth of substantive analysis brands them as charlatans and imposters.
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A bullet from an enemy often goes beside a man, and so spares him; but an imposthume in his head, or an apoplex, strikes him dead.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. IV.
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David or Zerubbabel (compare Hag 2: 2; Zec 4: 7-10) be primarily meant, there is here typically represented God's more wonderful doings in exalting Christ, crucified as an impostor, to be the Prince and Saviour and Head of His Church.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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In Leicester, though, they treat those twin impostors, panic and the ticking clock, with disdain.
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The douma, not fancying the idea that an impostor should rule over them, invited the hetman of a Polish army to Moscow, to discuss the other candidate.
The Story of Russia
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All payments of hire shall be made free and clear of all taxes, assessments, charges, duties and imposts of whatever nature, all of which shall be for the Sub-Charterer's account.
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A sketch of so many calamities does not seem but a massive record of impostures, and even from such a tender age the cruel lashings made me aware of my humble condition.
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The money to give people rewards comes from some of the existing taxes on fuel, registrations, tolls and other taxes and imposts imposed on transport.
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Ms. Palomina is distraught 'cause she lose ar pickney an she haff wan himposter inna de house wid ar.
Jamaica - Full Feed
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It is grossly unfair to true heroes who gave their lives in service to our country and legitimately earned valorous awards only to have impostors go down as heroes when they were never there.
Heroes or Villains?
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No, instead the two of them went to Paris where they could try out the imposture on the De Chantals first.
DOUBLE DECEIT
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They consider him to be nothing but an imposter.
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So when the air is heavy with imposture, and men live only to make money, and the service of God is become a thing of words and ceremonies, and the kingdom of heaven is bought and sold, and all that is high and pure in man is smothered by corruption -- fire of the same kind bursts out in higher natures with a fierceness which cannot be controlled; and, confident in truth and right, they call fearlessly on the seven thousand in Israel who have not bowed the knee to Baal to rise and stand by them.
Short Studies on Great Subjects
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Every hair on his body stood up and he started slowly circling the deke in a wide arc, first along the far side, then round to the near, and eventually straight downwind of the imposter, not 5 yards from the base of my tree.
Hurteau: Help Me Score This Buck
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‘He was a brigand, impostor and forger,’ he says.
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“Impostato su un pezzo di Regina Spektor, lo spot inizia in un ordinario giorno di lavoro autunnale; ma ciò che accade non ha nulla di ordinario.”
No Fat Clips!!! : JC Penney: Magic
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*Anti-papism : the view that the Pope is either an impostor or a medieval despot.
The Last Acceptable Prejudice
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The impost called annates involved the surrender of one-half of revenues during the first year of office by each new episcopal incumbent.
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But we do hate all impostures and lies; insomuch as we have severely forbidden it to all our fellows.
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American Union bordering on Kentucky, an impostor who declared that he was the Son of God, the Saviour of mankind, and that he had reappeared on earth to recall the impious, the unbelieving, and sinners to their duty.
The Golden Bough
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Her themes resonated with the audience, especially when she spoke of the common experience of the "imposter syndrome" - which "cripples" people's dreams, as they fear being exposed as less than how they are presenting themselves.
Marcia G. Yerman: Omega Institute Comes to NYC for a Weekend of Renewal
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The two imposters tried to appear at their ease.
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The fact that she is an impostor makes an incredibly ironic point about hypocrisy.
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Finally, there is a simple economic fact that mandatory detention is a huge impost on the budget.
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Before I could tell her about the inadvertent imposture that had occurred, she walked off the show in a huge huff with both signatures in hand.
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The budding scientists of today will need to prepare themselves to do battle with silliness, impostors, tricksters and fraudsters.
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Goods arrive, plainly enough, on a daily basis and the customs officials who are to determine how duty is to be paid face the problem, on a daily basis, of working out how to calculate the impost.
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Between are pointed arches, and immediately above, the triforium, having over each arch a treble window resting on four fascicled and three impost colonnettes.
The South of France—East Half
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He made, in person, a minute examination of four receiver-generals 'offices, in order, with that to guide him, to get a correct idea of the amount derived from imposts and the royal revenues, and of what became of this amount in its passage from collection to employment for the defrayal of the expenses of the state.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 5
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But, come now, just admit the idea of imposture into that honest, unsuspicious mind of yours, and you'll find the whole thing wears a very doubtful appearance directly.
Put Yourself in His Place
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I do it in love, and charity, and compassion to your soul: I believe it to be a public duty to warn people against cheats, quacks, and impostors.
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His imposture was an attempt to gain some self-esteem.
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I decided to plant an imposter cava among the seven authentic champagnes.
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My uncle was maimed, as I have said; Pippi, like all impostors, was a coward; it was my unrivalled skill with the sword, and readiness to use it, that maintained the reputation of the firm, so to speak, and silenced many a timid gambler who might have hesitated to pay his losings.
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Those atrocity stories had been made up by impostors, many of whom had never even been in Vietnam.
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But speculation on further tax imposts on property have been persistent and were further fuelled by a recent paper from the Left leaning Institute of Public Policy Research.
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An increase in taxation of even 2.5 per cent of GDP does not look like a terrible impost on people who are to be so much better off than we are today.
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What! An advocate for an imposter!
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Despite selective leakage from the government, it has never been fully explained how both the real Mohamud and a supposed "impostor" were allegedly able to frequent the Canadian High Commission in Nairobi during the long homeward struggle -- with no one noticing the difference.
Archive 2009-12-01
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On the other part, to pass a decree or sentence when the action is raw, crude, green, unripe, unprepared, as at the beginning, a danger would ensue of a no less inconveniency than that which the physicians have been wont to say befalleth to him in whom an imposthume is pierced before it be ripe, or unto any other whose body is purged of a strong predominating humour before its digestion.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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If he allowed this conversation to go on much longer she was bound to find out that he was an impostor.
THE LONGEST WAY HOME
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Almost from the moment he died, and it was revealed that he was not an Apache halfbreed but an Englishman, Grey Owl has been depicted largely as a fake or fraud, an impostor.
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Polo as an international circle is so tight and so filthy rich that impostors are rare.
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In order to explain why the thought that a dear one has been replaced by an impostor is adopted as a plausible explanation of the abnormal event, these theories also postulate a deficit at the level of hypothesis evaluation, or the presence of exaggerated attributional or data-gathering biases, such as the tendency to ˜jump to conclusion™ on the basis of limited evidence (Garety and Freeman 1999).
Delusion
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But Soa knew well enough that this was but the beginning of the struggle, and that, though it might be comparatively easy for Juanna and Otter to enter the city, and impose themselves upon its superstition-haunted people as the incarnations of their fabled gods, the maintenance of the imposture was a very different matter.
The People of the Mist
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Two envelopes, A and B. Something to be signed and witnessed, just to prove I'm not an impostor; but would an impostor go to all this trouble?
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- If you press L+R+Select, it will slow down the bricker thread, to furthur anti lag, while using an imposter
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