...Cause of the Present Discontents (1770) 1865:526. 2 Here this extraordinary man [Charles Townsend], then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself in...wise, is not given to men. However, he attempted it. Speech on American Taxation, 19 April 1774. 1904:67. 3 Your representative owes you, not his industry...

...activities, both as a matter of right and as a matter of Revenue practice, and to contrast this with the 1 "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men": Edmund Burke, On American Taxation (1775), 49, as quoted in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations . position...

...which statistical data are maintained and provided internationally on a separate and independent basis. To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke Anglo-Irish political theorist and Whig politician [Speech on American Taxation, 1774]...

...politics, that is to say, obstinacy, that he changed his mind and his policies at the drop of a hat. "To please universally was the object of his life;...but to tax and to please, no more than to love and be wise, is not given to men" (2:452-55). In the case of Chatham, who was alive to hear of these criticisms,...

...of 1975 as amended, and the provincial Exchequer Acts. FPETTY OOOOQQ O TACKLING TAX Pierre du Toit To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke Whoever hopes a faultless tax to see Hopes what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be....

...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...

...in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself...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...

...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...palatable to the partizans of American revenue, he made 30 a preamble stating the necessity of such a revenue. To close with the American distinction, this...

...in a sort of humiliated state, until something of the kind should be done. Here this extraordinary man, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, found himself...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...

...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...partizans of American revenue, he made a preamble, ftating the neceffity of fuch a revenue. To clofe with the American diftinftion, this revenue was an...