 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...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,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...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 soi'ten it to the other party, it was a duty of supply. To gratify the colonists,... | |
 | Oratory - 1808 - 546 pages
...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 revenues, he made a preamble stating the necesisty of such revenue. To close... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1809 - 608 pages
...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 a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...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 partizatis of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Arthur Collins - 1812 - 638 pages
...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. " He was truly the child of the house. He never thought, did, or said any thing but wiih a view to... | |
 | Art - 1832 - 592 pages
...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. He was truly the child of the house. He never thought, did, or said any thing, but with a view to you.... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...to love and tobe wise, ia not given to men. However be attempted it. To render the tax palatable lo paid, to obtain that service. We have however seen...never had been deprived of their allowances by the mo portduly ; but again, to soften it to the other party, it was a duty of ntppty. To gratify the co¿nists,... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...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. He was truly the child of the house. He never thought, did, or said any thing, but with a view to you.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...straits : to please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no тоги than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However, he attomptud it. He was truly the child of the house. He never thought, did, or said any thing, but with... | |
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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. 
