 ... 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...  Gentleman's Magazine and Historical Review - Page 1551793Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1855 - 402 pages
...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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - American literature - 1856 - 338 pages
...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 hearken... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American prose literature - 1856 - 592 pages
...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... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...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. — Franklin. CLXV.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1858 - 752 pages
...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, llowever, let us... | |
 | William Chambers - Conduct of life - 1858 - 378 pages
...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1859 - 812 pages
...others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice aa 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... | |
 | Hugh Stowell Brown - Baptists - 1859 - 428 pages
...on by Government are very heavy, but 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." There is a self-imposed... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1862 - 796 pages
...others, and much more gricvous 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 792 pages
...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... | |
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