 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. d to the country that now exists. This laxity of public...it must be owned, is engaged in a respectable del tobe wise, ia not given to men. However be attempted it. To render the tax palatable lo the partisans... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chance!lor partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 288 pages
...America. InRtantly he was tied down to his engagements, and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the...wise, is not given to men. However, he attempted it. He was truly the child of the house. He never thought, did, or said any thing, but with a view to you.... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 510 pages
...America. Instantly he was tied down to his engagements, and the whole body of courtiers drove him onward. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the...object of his life ; but to tax and to please, no тоги than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However, he attomptud it. He was truly the... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. [sq partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham), William Stanhope Taylor, John Henry Pringle - Europe - 1839 - 546 pages
...impossible that Mr. Townshend can mean to go on in the King's service; but of this your Lordship will cellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render tax palateable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of such... | |
 | William Pitt (1st earl of Chatham.) - 1839 - 570 pages
...impossible that Mr. Townshend can mean to go on in the King's service; but of this your Lordship will cellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render tax palateable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity of such... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Speeches, addresses, etc., English - 1841 - 548 pages
...talked as if the king stood in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the...he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble slating the necessity of such a revenue. To close... | |
 | Thomas Keppel (hon.) - 1842 - 640 pages
...devotion to her in her favourite habitation — in her chosen temple — the House of Commons. ... To please universally was the object of his life ; but to tax and please, no more than to luve and be wise, is not given to men. . . . He was truly the child of the... | |
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Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life; but to tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. 
