 | Edmund Burke - 1767 - 632 pages
...diftinuion ? A tax laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces, and gives motion to another,...twenty per cent, laid upon tobacco, either in the ports of Virginia, or London, is a duty laid upon the inland plantations of Virginia a hundred miles... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 700 pages
...the commodity of a country in any place, is like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agitated Jrom the centre ; for nothing can be more clear, than that a tax of ten or twenty per cent, laid upon... | |
 | 1793 - 586 pages
...dillinfUon IA tax laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces, and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agita" ted from the centre ; for nothingcan be more clear, than that a tax often or twenty per cent,... | |
 | 1803 - 582 pages
...difiii.Ciion ? A laic laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces, and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agita* tated from the centre ; for nothing can be more clear, than tiiat a tax often or twenty per... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 pages
...be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another,...centre ; for, nothing can be more clear than that a tax of ten or twenty per cent. laid upon tobacco, either in the ports of Virginia or London, is a duty... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 pages
...be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another,...centre ; for, nothing can be more clear than that a tax of ten or twenty per cent, laid upon tobacco, either in the ports of Virginia or London, is a duty... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1837 - 508 pages
...distinction ? Is not a tax, laid in any place, like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agitated from the center ? ' Nothing can be more clear, than that a tax of ten or twenty per -cent, laid upon tobacco... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1840 - 520 pages
...distinction ? Is not a tax, laid in any place, like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agitated from the center ? ' Nothing can be more clear, than that a tax of ten or twenty per cent, laid upon tobacco... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1852 - 484 pages
...be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another,...the whole circumference is agitated from the centre. A tax on tobacco, either in the ports of Virginia or London, is a duty laid upon the inland plantations... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 968 pages
...be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agitated from the center. For nothing can be more clear than that a tax of ten or twenty per cent, laid upon tobacco,... | |
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I hold it to be true that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into and making a circle in a lake, till one circle produces and gives motion to another and the whole circumference is agitated from the centre. 
