| Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 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...folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot case or deliv«r us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 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...our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners can not ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something... | |
| Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but wenhave many others, and much more grievous to some of us....our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners can not ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something... | |
| Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...hy the govern nient 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 a» much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as ranch by our folly; ahd... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. 26. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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. " 1. It would be thought a hard government... | |
| 1853 - 446 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. "1. It would be thought a hard government... | |
| Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 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...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. — Franklin. TAXING. — Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions ;... | |
| William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...discharge them: but we have many others, and I much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice аз much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...hearken to good advice, and something may be done for Ha : ' God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says in his Almanac. '< It would be thought... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 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...times as much by our pride, and four times as much liy our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot east: or deliver us, by allowing an abatement.... | |
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