 | Benjamin Franklin - 1998 - 404 Seiten
...our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let...that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733. It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2003 - 588 Seiten
...our pride, and four times as much by our folly, and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However let...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... | |
 | Walter Isaacson - 2005 - 576 Seiten
...be done for us; God helps them that 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, to be employed in its service. But idleness taxes many of us much more,... | |
 | Erin Barrett, Jack Mingo - 2004 - 132 Seiten
...our pride, and four times as much by our folly; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us, by allowing an abatement. However,...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2004 - 320 Seiten
...our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let...that help themselves, as Poor Richard says, in his Almanack of 1733. It would be thought a hard Government that should tax its People one tenth Part of... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2005 - 320 Seiten
...our PRIDE, and four times as much by our FOLLY; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an abatement. However, let...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,... | |
 | Paul Zall - 2005 - 216 Seiten
...our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let...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... | |
 | Gareth Stedman Jones - 2005 - 300 Seiten
...our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from these Taxes the Commissioners cannot ease or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However let...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... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 2006 - 168 Seiten
...our Pride, and four times as much by our Folly, and from thefe Taxes the Commifiioners cannot eafe or deliver us by allowing an Abatement. However, let us hearken to good Advice, and lomething may be done for us. God helps them that kelp themfeher, as Poor PJchard fays, in his Almanack... | |
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Ones we had to pay, we might more easily discharge them; but we have 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 by our Folly; and from these Taxes... 
