Jonathan 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 the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell,... The Monthly magazine - Page 294by Monthly literary register - 1820Full view - About this book
| George Francis Train - Banks and banking - 1857 - 428 pages
...people wish to square off the debt and stop the taxes.* *"We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory : — TAXES...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, and... | |
| 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,...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... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...BOLL 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 npon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon warmth, light,... | |
| Sydney Smith - Ethics - 1859 - 386 pages
...determination not to submit to serious insult and injury. We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory ; — TAXES...back, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon every flung which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste — taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion... | |
| Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 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, or covers the back, or is placed under the fcot ; taxes upon every thing which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth,... | |
| 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... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1859 - 546 pages
...support from the public treasury. Taxes were piled on taxes, until they reached, said Sidney Smith, " every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; taxes upon... | |
| Richard Green Parker, James Madison Watson - Readers (Elementary) - 1863 - 614 pages
...inform Brother Jonathan1 what arc the inevitable " consequences of being too fond of glory — Tares upon every article which enters into the mouth, or...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 —... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - Finance - 1863 - 504 pages
...pointing to the then state of England. He says — " We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory, — taxes upon every article which enters into the month, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot ; . . . . taxes on everything on the earth and... | |
| Sydney Smith - English essays - 1865 - 478 pages
...determination not to submit to serious insult and injury. We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory: — TAXES...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, and... | |
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