| Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 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 äs much by our idleness, three times äs much by our pride, and- four times äs much by our folly;... | |
| Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...laid 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...to good advice, and something may be done for us; 'God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says in his almanac. " It would be thought a... | |
| Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 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." — [The old man, after lecturing... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...government were the only once we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have manv others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are...to good advice, and something may be done for us; God htljis them that help thcmsilres, as Poor Richard saye. "I. It would be thought a hard government,... | |
| John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 378 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. — Franklin. CI.XV. It is downright hypocrisy in a man of certain degree, not immediately to take... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 650 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...idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four timos as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing... | |
| William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 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 in his almanac. " It would be thought... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 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, llowever, let us hearken to good advice, and something may be done for us ; God helps them that help... | |
| Ferdinand E. A. Gasc - French language - 1858 - 362 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 s by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much0 by our folly ; and from... | |
| Hugh Stowell Brown - Baptists - 1859 - 428 pages
...truth, when in the exordium of his sermon, he said, "The taxes laid on by Government are very heavy, but we are taxed twice as much by our idleness — three...cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement." There is a self-imposed taxation, of which we seldom think, but a taxation of enormous magnitude. If... | |
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