Most children have such a high ideal of their parents, unless the parents themselves have been unsatisfactory, that it can hardly hope to stand up to a realistic evaluation.
Thanks to Pace, one Missouri homeowner wound up with 25,000 dollars of debt on a home that was appraised by the city at the time at just 8,400 dollars.
In order to discourage the practice, which is generally a foolish one, this species of rent might be valued rather high, and consequently taxed somewhat higher than common money-rents.
By valuing, in the same manner, such rents rather high, and consequently taxing them somewhat higher than common money-rents, a practice which is hurtful to the whole community, might, perhaps, be sufficiently discouraged.
" I'm very far from agreeing with you in your estimation of ladies in general ." said Darcy, " I cannot boast of knowing more than half-a-dozen, in the whole range of my acquaintance, that are really accomplished. "
" True; for he would value the animals for very different properties. Still is this a breed highly esteemed and, as you witness, much honored with the burdens it is often destined to bear" .
When he carried them from his workhouse to his shop, he must have valued them at the price for which he could have sold them to a dealer or shopkeeper, who would have bought them by wholesale.