| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 812 pages
...Listen to it, and hear what federalism would soon bring us to, if not stopped in its mad career : " Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth,...covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear; feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light,... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...injury. We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory: — TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth,...covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light,... | |
| Joseph Gales - United States - 1824 - 872 pages
...truth and wit had ever concurred in producing. Mr. Jeffrey says, that the unfortunate Englishman pays "taxes upon every article which enters into ' the...covers the back, or is placed under ' the foot ; taxes upon every thing which it is ' pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes ' upon warmth, light,... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 880 pages
...would soon bring us to, if not stopped in its mad career : " Taxes upon every article which enters inte the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light,... | |
| Sydney Smith - Authors, English - 1856 - 502 pages
...article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, liyht, and locomotion — taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth... | |
| George Francis Train - Banks and banking - 1857 - 428 pages
...taxes.* *"We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory : — TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth,...covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light,... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1857 - 800 pages
...which enters into the mouth, or covers the hack, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion — taxes on every thing on earth, and the waters under the earth... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...BULL can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of Glory : TAXES ! Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth,...covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth, light, and... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes npon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion ; taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ;... | |
| Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1859 - 282 pages
...Smith has well enumerated the fruits of an insane desire for national aggrandizement, as including: " Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot—taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste—taxes upon... | |
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