 | Benjamin Franklin - Statesman - 1848 - 312 pages
...we had to pay, we might mnfe 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,...something may be done for us ; ' God helps them that helps themselves', as poor Richard says in his Almanac. " It would be thought a hard government that... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Ells - American literature - 1778 - 392 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,...folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot case or deliv«r us by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice and something... | |
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 522 pages
...we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but wenhave many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,...our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners can not ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However, let us hearken to good advice, and something... | |
 | Robert Bailey Thomas - Almanacs, American - 1860 - 628 pages
...discharge them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice a» much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as ranch by our folly; ahd from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by OUR NATIONAL... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 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,...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. 26. The common fluency of speech in many men, and most women, is owing to a scarcity of matter, and... | |
 | 1853 - 446 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. "1. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 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. " 1. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...discharge them: but we have many others, and I much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice аз much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride,...hearken to good advice, and something may be done for Ha : ' God helps them that help themselves,' as poor Richard says in his Almanac. '< It would be thought... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 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...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. — Franklin. TAXING. — Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions ;... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 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,...times as much by our pride, and four times as much liy our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot east: or deliver us, by allowing an abatement.... | |
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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... 
