...Finance, ed. D. Moggridge (London, 1978), p. 302 'To tax and to please', Edmund Burke remarked in 1774, 'no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." Pleasure in the payment of taxes is scarcely possible, yet collection could entail less animosity and...

...until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the 25 Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made 30 a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close...

...tmiverfally was the objeft of his life ; but to tax and to pleafe, no more than to love and to be wife, is not given to men. However he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made a preamble, ftating the neceffity of fuch a revenue. To clofe...

...the violent ebullition of his mixed virtues and failings'; 'his ardent passion for fame'; and adds, 'to please universally was the object of his life,' but ' to tax and please is not given to men, though he attempted it.' The sketch which Smollett gives of Charles Townshend,...

...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in...

...purpose the first step must be the imposition of a tax. But, as Burke observed, to tax and to please, any more than to love and to be wise, is not given to man. Some months ago there appeared a paragraph in The Times announcing that at a certain place in...