 | 320 páginas
...the violent ebullition of his mixed virtues and failings'; 'his ardent passion for fame'; and adds, 'to please universally was the object of his life,' but ' to tax and please is not given to men, though he attempted it.' The sketch which Smollett gives of Charles Townshend,... | |
 | Anton Bertram - 1930 - 312 páginas
...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in... | |
 | Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Oldwick, N.J.) - 1989 - 312 páginas
...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in... | |
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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. 
