 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pages
...into an unfathomable ocean of ever-widening sublimity. TAXES. PERMIT me to inform you, my friends, what are the inevitable consequences of being too...glory; — 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... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - Great Britain - 1849 - 412 pages
...all-pervading system of taxation. He says ii involves '' taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or 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 locomotion.... | |
 | Francis E. Brewster - Conduct of life - 1851 - 470 pages
...Keviewer, for so able a writer cannot abstain from the childish humor of applying to us a nickname') what are the inevitable consequences of being too...fond of glory. Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under foot — taxes upon everything which is pleasant... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...Bancroft. SEC. LXXIV. THE CONSEQUENCES OF BEING TOO FOND OF GLORY. Permit me to inform you, my friends, what are the inevitable consequences of being too...fond of glory: taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under foot; taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 780 pages
...homage of learned and accomplished men. THE COST OF MILITARY GLORY.1 We can inform Brother Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too...of glory — Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1851 - 768 pages
...the inevitable consequenees of bcing too fond of glory — Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxcs upon everything which it is pleasant to sce, hear, fcel, smell, or taste — taxcs upon warmth,... | |
 | English essays - 1852 - 498 pages
...the inevitable consequences of being loo fond of gfory,— TAXES upon every artick 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 warmth, light and locomotion... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - Conduct of life - 1852 - 278 pages
...many a struggling Englishman finds to be quite too serious for a joke : — " We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory — taxes upon every article that enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...TAXES THE PRICE OF GLORY.— Rev. Sydney SmM. Born, 1768 ; died, 1845. JOHN 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, or covers the back, or is placed under the... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...TAXES THE PRICE OF GLORY.— Rec. Sydney Smith. Born, 1768 ; died, I84S. JOHN 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, or covers the back, or is placed under the... | |
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