 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...or: by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. — Franklin. CLXV. It is downright hypocrisy in a man of certain degree, not immediately to take the... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...on hy the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and tour times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot case or deliver us,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...on by the government, were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...to good advice, and something may be done for us; 'God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. 5 "It would be thought a hard government... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them : but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much hy our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by oitr folly : and from... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us ; ' God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. I. " It would be thought a hard government... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 336 pages
...on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, arul something may be done for us; " God helps them that help themselves," as Poor Richard says. I.... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...on by government, were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; — but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing anj abatement. — FRAN KLIN. 82 BOUNDLESSNESS OF THE CREATION. ABOUT the time of the invention of... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...on by government, were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; — but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We arc taxed twice &s much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 206 pages
...on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us ; ' God helps them that help themselves;' as Poor Richard says. " I. It would be thought a hard government... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...on by government, were the only ones we 'had to pay, we might more easily discharge them;—but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of...commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing any abatement.—FEANKLIN. THE HORN OF THE ALPS. WHAT time, behind the distant rock, Slow sinks the... | |
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Neighbours, the Taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our... 
