 | Mormon Church - 1921 - 1238 pages
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 | William Peterfield Trent, Benjamin Willis Wells - American literature - 1903 - 1042 pages
...desiring him to speak his mind, and gathering around him, he proceeded as follows : " Friends," said he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid...three times as much by our pride, and four times as mach by our folly ; and from these taxes the commissioners cannot ease or deliver us byallowing an... | |
 | James L. Huston - History - 1999 - 340 pages
...Samuel M. Wolfe, Helper's Impending Crisis Dissected (Philadelphia, 1860), 58. before still applied: "We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three...as much by our pride, and four times as much by our folly."51 Southerners readily acceded to the necessity of cultivating the middle-class virtues of thrift,... | |
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I will give it to you in short: for ' a word to the wise is enough,' as poor Richard says." They joined in desiring him G 2. to speak his mind, and gathering round him, he proceeded as follows :— " Friends," says he, " the taxes are indeed very heavy... 
