 Friends, says he, and 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...  The Monthly Review, Or, Literary Journal - Page 199edited by - 1780Full view - About this book
 | English literature - 1777 - 756 pages
...and he that hath a much by our Idlenefs, three times as calling hath an office of profit and homuch by our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly ; and from thefe taxes the commiflioners cannot eafe or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and fomcthing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American prose literature - 1779 - 610 pages
...if thofe laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more eafily difcharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous...times as much by our folly; and from thefe taxes the commiffioners cannot cafe or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good... | |
 | Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - Periodicals - 1780 - 614 pages
...pay, we might more eafily difcharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to fume of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idlenefs,...times as much by our folly ; and from thefe taxes the commiflkmers cannot cafe or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice,... | |
 | James Anderson - Scotland - 1791 - 422 pages
...if thofe laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more eafily difcharg.e them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous...times as much by our folly ; and from thefe taxes the commifiioners cannot eafe or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1792 - 494 pages
...others, and much more grievous to fomc of us. We are taxed twice as fnuch by our idlencfs, three timos as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly : and from thcfe taxes the commilfioncrs cannot cafe or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken... | |
 | Early English newspapers - 1793 - 656 pages
...other?, and much more grievous to fome of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idlenefs, three times a? much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and from thtfe taxes the commiiyoners can not cafe us by allowing any abatement." — " Before any one (fays... | |
 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 pages
...have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let us heark->... | |
 | 1797 - 522 pages
...eafily difcharge ther. : but we have many others, and much more grievous to fome of us. We are tuti twice as much by our idlenefs, three times as much by our pride, and four times ;s much by our folly; and from thefe M:J the commilHoners cannot cafe or deliver us by allowing an... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1802 - 348 pages
...if thofe laid on by the government, were the only ones we had to pay, we might more eafily difcharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous...times as much by our folly ; and from thefe taxes the commiffioners cannot eafe or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good... | |
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