 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - 1853 - 1016 pages
...in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. " Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1853 - 972 pages
...humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor I of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits....he- attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 518 pages
...down to his engagements, and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself...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.... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Orators - 1853 - 972 pages
...stood in a sort of humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself...To please universally was the object of his life; i but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However, i he... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 516 pages
...down to his engagements, and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself...straits : to please universally was the object of bis life ; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However,... | |
 | Orators - 1859 - 370 pages
...of the Exchequer, found himself ID great straits. To please universally was the object of his Jife ;but to tax and to please, no more than to love and...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenues, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such revenue. To close... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1860 - 644 pages
...please universally was the ohject of his life ; hut to tax and to please, no more than to lore and to he wise, is not given to men. However he attempted it. To render the tax palatahle to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamhle stating the necessity of such a... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1863 - 818 pages
...down to his engagements, and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself...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 - 1865 - 592 pages
...in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | John Heneage Jesse - Great Britain - 1867 - 624 pages
...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... | |
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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. 
