Revenues

Examples

• The revenues of the Governor of Coventry Island are not large. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So the Government intends to take to itself a great portion of the revenues arising from priestly farms, factories, etc. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It includes what are usually two distinct revenues, belonging to two distinct persons, the profits of stock, and the wages of labour. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The revenues from the province of Asia defrayed the expenses of the Roman state. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The only change was, that Mexico became her own executor of the laws and the recipient of the revenues. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• In countries where the public revenues are in farm, the farmers are generally the most opulent people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The revenues arising from both those species of rents were, the greater part of them, paid in kind, in corn, wine, cattle, poultry, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• His Majesty's revenues are seldom collected in this happy valley; the rents are dubious; and the water communication is very frequently cut off. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• His revenues, if he has any, are soon spent. Plato. The Republic.
• The other revenues of the ecclesiastics of both religions at fifty per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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