 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - 1903 - 1042 páginas
...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...three times as much by our pride, and four times as mach by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us byallowing an... | |
 | 1963 - 576 páginas
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 | William B. Dillingham - 1986 - 464 páginas
...nearly so heavy and enervating as those that they impose upon themselves. "We are taxed," he tells them, "twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much...cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement." 47 The point that he wishes to make is that this form of self-taxation is going on without most of... | |
 | James L. Huston - 1999 - 340 páginas
...Samuel M. Wolfe, Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected (Philadelphia, 1860), 58. before still applied: "We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three...as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."51 Southerners readily acceded to the necessity of cultivating the middle-class virtues of thrift,... | |
 | A. N. Shanbhag - 1989 - 348 páginas
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 | Emory Elliott - 1991 - 2152 páginas
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 | B. Sheikh Ali - 1991 - 544 páginas
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... as Poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows; "Friends," says he, and neighbours, "the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the Government were the only ones... 
