 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1905 - 136 pages
...something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Ex5 chequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity 10 of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | T. Dundas Pillans - Political science - 1905 - 214 pages
...well-being of our country is heroic virtue. Great men are the guide-posts and land-marks of the State. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, v is not given to men. An Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue \/ another Englishman... | |
 | University of Calcutta - 1908 - 562 pages
...indeed, if he lives to see nothing that shall vary the prospect, and cloud the setting of his day. (c) To please universally was the object of his life ;...than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. (d) High and reverend authorities lift up their heads on both aides ; and there is no sure footing... | |
 | Henry Atton - Customs administration - 1910 - 546 pages
...independence, the home Government meanwhile gracefully doing its best to disprove Burke's acrid maxim that ' to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man.' Administratively speaking, the period at which this second volume appears is scarcely less important... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 pages
...person loved : and therefore it is well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise." Cf. Burke, "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man." 26. indifferently, equally. 28. To show the wanderer, Cicero, emphasizing the duty of sharing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1911 - 318 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...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he had a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Godfrey Tennyson Lampson Locker-Lampson - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1918 - 632 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...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisians of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | 1925 - 136 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...given to men. However, he attempted it. To render a tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations - Finance, Public - 1968 - 256 pages
...the American colonists, you recall, during the Revolution and prerevolutionary period. Burke said : "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Our agency is the agency that stands between the Congress which enacts the laws and the taxpayers who... | |
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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. 
