 | John Heneage Jesse - 1901 - 506 páginas
...paramount end and aim of this "candidate for contradictory honours." But, as Burke further observes: "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Like many other statesmen of his day, Charles Townshend had taught himself to make a great distinction... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1902 - 558 páginas
...in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, 110 more than to love and to be wise, is not given to...palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he had a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close with the American distinction, this... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - 1902 - 514 páginas
...paramount end and aim of this " candidate for contradictory honours." But, as Burke further observes: "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Like many other statesmen of his day, Charles Townshend had taught himself to make a great distinction... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 páginas
...Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be...American distinction, this revenue was external or port duty ; but again, to soften it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify the colonists,... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 páginas
...Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and please no more than to love and to be wise, is not...American distinction, this revenue was external, or port duty ; but again, to soften it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify the colonists,... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1904 - 948 páginas
..." To render the tirit palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he marie a preamble stating1 the necessity of such a revenue. To close with the...American distinction, this revenue was external or port duty ; but again to soften it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify the colonists... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 156 páginas
...chequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be...revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity 10 of such a revenue. To close with the American distinction, this revenue was external or port-duty;... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - 1905 - 214 páginas
...well-being of our country is heroic virtue. Great men are the guide-posts and land-marks of the State. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, v is not given to men. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue \/ another Englishman... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 páginas
...prospect, and cloud the setting of his day. (c) To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (d) High and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both aides ; and there is no sure footing... | |
 | Henry Duff Traill, James Saumarez Mann - 1909 - 562 páginas
...the courtiers," as Burke puts it, began to try that impossible task, at once to tax and to please. " To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American...the necessity of such a revenue. To close with the Americaii distinction, this revenue was external or port duty ; bat apain to soften it to the other... | |
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Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. 
