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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. "
Correspondence of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham - Page 235
edited by - 1839
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke: A vindication of natural ...

Edmund Burke - 1889 - 556 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he had a preamble stating the necessity of...
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Annual Register of World Events, Volume 18

1778 - 626 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind .should be done. Here this extraordinary mnn, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits. To please universally was the object of his life j but to tax and to С 3 please, pleane, no more than to ]o've and to be wise, • is . «jot given...
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Maxims and opinions, moral, political and economical, with ..., Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1804 - 212 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. 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 176 tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. However he attempted...
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The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1806 - 520 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....not given to men. However he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of...
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The British Cicero: Or, A Selection of the Most Admired Speeches ..., Volume 2

1808 - 546 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenues, he made a preamble stating the necesisty of...
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Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, Volume 1

Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partisans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of...
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The Eloquence of the British Senate: Being a Selection of the Best ..., Volume 2

William Hazlitt - 1809 - 608 pages
...the winter that a revenue must be had out of America. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made a preamble stating the necessity of...
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Elegant extracts: a copious selection of passages from the most ..., Volume 4

Elegant extracts - 1812 - 316 pages
...the winter that a revenue must be had out of America. Here this extraordinary man, then chancellor of the exchequer, found himself in great straits....given to men. However, he attempted it. To render the tax palatable to the partizatis of American revenue, he made a preamble, stating the necessity...
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Peerage of England. ...

Arthur Collins - 1812 - 638 pages
...humilitated state, until something of the kind should be done. " Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in great straits :...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 wiih a view to...
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