...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. However, he attempted it. Speech on American Taxation, 19 April 1774. 1904:67. 3 Your representative owes you, not his industry...

...both as a matter of right and as a matter of Revenue practice, and to contrast this with the 1 "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men": Edmund Burke, On American Taxation (1775), 49, as quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations . position...

...statistical data are maintained and provided internationally on a separate and independent basis. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish political theorist and Whig politician [Speech on American Taxation, 1774]...

...1975 as amended, and the provincial Exchequer Acts. FPETTY OOOOQQ O TACKLING TAX Pierre du Toit To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke Whoever hopes a faultless tax to see Hopes what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be....

...Finance, ed. D. Moggridge (London, 1978), p. 302 'To tax and to please', Edmund Burke remarked in 1774, 'no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Pleasure in the payment of taxes is scarcely possible, yet collection could entail less animosity and...

...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...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made 30 a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close...

...tmiverfally was the objeft of his life ; but to tax and to pleafe, no more than to love and to be wife, is not given to men. However he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made a preamble, ftating the neceffity of fuch a revenue. To clofe...

...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in...

...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in...