 | William Macbride Childs - 1910 - 108 էջ
...applause by quoting (without acknowledgement) Sydney Smith's attack upon the taxation of the day : — ' 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, and taste ; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion... | |
 | 1914 - 776 էջ
...the Edinburgh Review of that year. "We can inform Brother Jonathan what is the inevitable consequence of being too fond of glory. Taxes upon every article...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 and locomotion.... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1912 - 824 էջ
...applied to this system of internal revenue Sydney Smith's humorous account of British taxation in 1820: "Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth,...the back, or is placed under the foot ; taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, taste, or smell; taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion... | |
 | 1912 - 414 էջ
...can inform Jonathan what are the inevita^ ble 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 foot ; taxes upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth,... | |
 | Adelbert Grant Fradenburgh - 1913 - 310 էջ
...employed forty years before have been aptly applied 1 to the excise taxes of the Civil War period: "Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth...the back, or is placed under the foot; taxes upon everything that is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion;... | |
 | James Ford Rhodes - 1913 - 626 էջ
...Their citation is from Sydney Smith's article on America, Edinburgh Review, Jan., 1820. Smith wrote: "Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the hack, or is placed under the foot — taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel,... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 372 էջ
...your ease, — be quiet and steady. You will beat Mrs. Partington. TAXES THE PRICE OF GLORY 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 15 covers the back, or is placed under the... | |
 | University of Pennsylvania - 1919 - 888 էջ
...year 1818, Sydney Smith gave a resume of British taxation in the form of advice to the United States: "We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...fond of glory: TAXES upon every article which enters the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot— taxes upon everything which is pleasant... | |
 | 1919 - 706 էջ
...that was going on in Great Britain. "We can inform Brother Jonathan what is the inevitable consequence of being too fond of glory. Taxes upon every article...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 locomotion.... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1916 - 652 էջ
...were heard from all parts of the country. And no wonder, for the bill imposed a tax upon practically "every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed upon the foot ; upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; upon warmth,... | |
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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,... 
