...variant forms in RH Sherard, Life of Oscar Wilde (1 906) and Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (1988). Taxes 1 To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. EDMUND BURKE, (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman. "First Speech on Conciliation with America:...

...It is necessary only for the good man to do nothing for evil to triumph. 1749 On American Taxation 0362 Macbeth Eye of newt, and toe of frog. Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adde 1750 Bad laws are the worst sort of tyranny. 1751 On Conciliation with America The concesslons of the...

...percent in 1990/91. Perhaps Edmund Burke was correct when he wrote, in his treatise On American Taxation, "To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men." 6 SYNTHESIS The Thurians ordained that whosoever would go about to abolish an old law, or establish...

...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...

...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...