 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 554 стор.
...Instantly he was tied down to his engagements — and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the...but to tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men. However he attempted it." On the 28th of October, 1767, a few gentlemen... | |
 | Sherwin Cody - 1904 - 566 стор.
...talked as if the King stood in a sort of humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the...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... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale (Jr.) - 1904 - 520 стор.
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the...universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and please no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However, he attempted it. To render... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1905 - 136 стор.
...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 - 1905 - 214 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 - 1910 - 546 стор.
...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 стор.
...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 - 1911 - 318 стор.
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the...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 Locker Lampson - 1918 - 628 стор.
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the...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... | |
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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. 
