 | 1884 - 1198 էջ
...everything was taxed. " We must pay taxes," says Sydney Smith in describing the condition of his times, "upon every article which enters into the month, or...covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, and tasto. Taxes upon warmth, light, and... | |
 | William Heaton - 1885 - 338 էջ
...theRev. Sydney Smith, in a passage that has been often quoted. " We can inform Jonathan," he said, " what are the inevitable consequences of being too...— TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot — taxes npon everything which it is pleasant... | |
 | Royal Statistical Society (Great Britain) - 1915 - 716 էջ
...the Income Tax was still levied. Let Sydney Smith describe the scheme of taxation then in force : " We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences " of being too fond of glory — taxes on everything which enters into " the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under foot .... " taxes... | |
 | Alfred F. Robbins - 1888 - 232 էջ
...warning to the United States to avoid that spirit which we now call "Jingoism," Sydney Smith wrote — "We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...— 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... | |
 | Stephen Dowell - 1888 - 618 էջ
...in an article in the ' Edinburgh Review ' in 1820. ' We can inform Brother Jonathan,' he writes, ' 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 everything which it is pleasant to... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1889 - 470 էջ
...which they were so opportunely extricated by the treaty of Ghent.— [ER 182o.] BRITISH TAXATION. — We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...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 is pleasant... | |
 | 1890 - 1056 էջ
...with the enormous burdens of the Napoleonic wars was most significant. It begins with the words, " We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...glory: taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot." It describes in detail the taxation which... | |
 | Carl Theodor Eben - 1890 - 530 էջ
...SIppetit. (brog) Sirjenei. (örmtn) §erme(in. 18 1. English Taxes. Permit me to inform you, my friends, what are the inevitable consequences of being too...— Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot; tajees upon every thing which it is pleasant... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 էջ
...of war than that which is founded upon a determination not to submit to serious insult and injury. We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...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... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 752 էջ
...Justinian Stubbs, Esquire (xxi. 141. 25). SYDNEY SMITH, Review of Seyberfs " Annals of the United States" : We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences...glory : Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot . . . on the brass nails of the coffin, and... | |
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We can inform 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,... 
