 | Laconics - 1829 - 390 pages
...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 by...our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and tour times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot case or deliver us,... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...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 by our idleness,...us; 'God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. 5 "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part of... | |
 | Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - Conduct of life - 1831 - 290 pages
...them : but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much hy our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by oitr folly : and from these taxes the commissioners cannot case or deliver us, by allowing an abatement.... | |
 | Working class - 1832 - 220 pages
...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 by our idleness,...; ' God helps them that help themselves,' as Poor Richard says. I. " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part... | |
 | Almanacs, American - 1833 - 336 pages
...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 by our idleness,...abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, arul something may be done for us; " God helps them that help themselves," as Poor Richard says. I.... | |
 | 1833 - 310 pages
...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 by our idleness,...commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing anj abatement. — FRAN KLIN. 82 BOUNDLESSNESS OF THE CREATION. ABOUT the time of the invention of... | |
 | 1833 - 814 pages
...discharge them ; — but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We arc taxed twice &s much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing any abatement. — FRANKLIN. 82 83 BOUNDLESSNESS OF THE CREATION. ABOUT the time of the invention of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1834 - 206 pages
...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 by our idleness,...; ' God helps them that help themselves;' as Poor Richard says. " I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - American essays - 1834 - 310 pages
...them ; but we have ma. in others, and much more grievous to some of us. ' We are taxed twice as mucn by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...; * God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says in his Almanac. "It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth... | |
 | 1834 - 440 pages
...'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 by our idleness,...commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing any abatement.—FEANKLIN. THE HORN OF THE ALPS. WHAT time, behind the distant rock, Slow sinks the... | |
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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 twice as much by our... 
