 | Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2004 - 132 Seiten
...many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much...cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. . , . It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time,... | |
 | Wolfgang Mieder - 2004 - 336 Seiten
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 | Paul Zall - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much...help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanac of 1733. Father Abraham misremembers the date (1736) as he turns from promoting industry to preaching... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our IBLENESS, three times as much by our PRIDE, and four times as much...help themselves," as Poor Richard says in his almanac of 1733. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their TIME,... | |
 | Gareth Stedman Jones - 2005 - 300 Seiten
...many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness, three times as much by our Pride, and four times as much...something may be done for us; God helps them that help themselves.15 According to Say, Franklin was 'one of the greatest triumphs of equality . . . that has... | |
 | Franklyn Hobbs - 2005 - 237 Seiten
...many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by ow idleness, three times as much by our pride and four times as much by our folly; and from these tones the commissioners cannot ease ar deliver us by allowing an abatement."— Franhlin. HO is there... | |
 | A. R. Calhoun - 2005 - 301 Seiten
...and something may be done for us. God helps them that help themselves, as poor Richard says. " ' I. It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one-tenth part of their time, to be employed in its service ; but idleness taxes many of as more ; sloth, by bringing on diseases,... | |
 | 宮崎伸治 - 2005 - 186 Seiten
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 | Mark Skousen, Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 514 Seiten
...of the former we may easily bear the latter.* For we are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly. Mr. Hall wrote me about the ferment in the colonies over the Stamp Act; that Mr. Oliver, the stamp... | |
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The taxes are indeed very heavy ; and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharg-e them ; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. — We are taxed twice as much by our idleness,... 
