 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 Idleness,...  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 274by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
 | Orville Luther Holley - Inventors - 1848 - 534 pages
...much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by 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... | |
 | Advice - 1848 - 72 pages
...mankind almost uniformly verifies. It is a habit that is as destructive to health as it is to industry. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth of their time, to be employed in its service — but idleness taxes many of us much more, if we reckon... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and...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
...much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and...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 their time to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Inventors - 1853 - 522 pages
...much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and...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 their time,... | |
 | William Chambers - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1853 - 858 pages
...much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice аз much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1853 - 308 pages
...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. However,...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... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...more grievous to some of us. — We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly ; and...cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. — Franklin. TAXING. — Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new impositions ;... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - American literature - 1854 - 580 pages
...We are taxed twice äs much by our idleness, three times äs much by our pride, and- four times äs much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners...done for us; „God helps them that help themselves," äs poor Richard says. „I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax the people one tenth... | |
 | James William Gilbart - Language and languages - 1854 - 428 pages
...species. We shall now give a further illustration from Dr. Franklin's Poor Richard's Almanack : — " It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time to be employed in its service : but idleness taxes many of us much more... | |
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