 | J. Ellis Barker - 1917 - 498 էջ
...witty Canon of St. Paul's, wrote in an article in The Edinburgh Review in 1820 : We can inform Brother Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being...the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon anything that is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion.... | |
 | Smith Burnham - 1920 - 730 էջ
...also imposed upon many goods made within the country. It was said at the time that there was a tax upon "every article which enters into the mouth or covers the back or is placed under the foot; upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste." There were taxes upon all incomes... | |
 | Otto Jespersen - 1920 - 312 էջ
...that were not taxed. In the words of Sydney Smith, there were "taxes upon every article which enters 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, light, and... | |
 | Adelbert Grant Fradenburgh - 1921 - 392 էջ
...Smith, employed forty years before, have been aptly applied 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;... | |
 | Samuel Eagle Forman - 1921 - 704 էջ
...(greenbacks). In July 1862, Congress passed an internal revenue act which imposed a tax upon practically " every article which enters into the mouth or covers the back or is placed under the foot ; upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste ; upon warmth, light, and locomotion... | |
 | Brander Matthews - 1922 - 314 էջ
...sympathy that he warned us that the inevitable consequences of a nation's fondness for martial glory are " taxes upon 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 on... | |
 | Herbert Heaton - 1922 - 304 էջ
...and everything was taxed. As Sydney Smith declared, there were "taxes upon every article which enters 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, light, and... | |
 | Robert Burns Morgan - 1923 - 696 էջ
...America. (In Edinburgh Review, 1820 ; reprinted in his Essays.) \ We can inform Jonathan [America] what are the inevitable consequences of being too...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 Belmont Parker - 1924 - 408 էջ
...description of taxation, "the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory," which resulted in "taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth,...covers the back, or is placed under the foot; taxes on everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste; . . . taxes on everything on... | |
 | Elisabeth Escher - 1925 - 118 էջ
...Ausspruch in der Edinburgh Review konnte kaum eine Ubertreibung genannt werden: "We can inform Brother Jonathan, what are the inevitable consequences of...covers the back or is placed under the foot. Taxes upou every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste . . ."8 Namentlich waren... | |
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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,... 
