 | Chapbooks - 1796 - 34 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 times as much by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1820 - 72 pages
...proceeded as l• "Friends," say taxes are indeed v• on by government to pay, we might n hut we have mai; grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1804 - 78 pages
...we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grevious 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... | |
 | Gleaner - 1805 - 426 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 times as much by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American literature - 1806 - 590 pages
...on by the government were the only ones we bad 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 times as much by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1806 - 586 pages
...on by the government were the only ones he 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 times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing... | |
 | 1811 - 538 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...idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the government cannot deliver us." But it is in our own... | |
 | James Plumptre - English drama - 1812 - 424 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...idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and from these tuxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might mote easily discharge them ; but we may have many others, and much more grievous to some of...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... | |
 | 1812 - 314 pages
...we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grevious 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... | |
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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... 
