 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.  Annual Register - Pàgina 38editat per - 1767Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Edmund Burke - 1780 - 700 pàgines
...What real difference can there be in this diftincYion r — A tax laid on the commodity of a country in any place, is like a pebble falling into and making...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 pàgines
...internal taxes upon the colonies is denied. What real difference can there be in this dillinfUon IA tax laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into,...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,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1793 - 620 pàgines
...internal taxes upon the colonies is denied. What real difference caa there be in this distinction ? A tax laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a take, till one circle produces, and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference is agitated... | |
 | 1803 - 582 pàgines
...taxes upun Lhc colonies is denied. What real difference can there be in this difiii.Ciion ? A laic laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into,...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 - 512 pàgines
...were legal. But I cannot see a real difference in this distinction ; for I hold it to be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into,...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 - 518 pàgines
...were legal. But I cannot see a real difference in this distinction ; for I hold it to be true, that a tax laid in any place is like a pebble falling into,...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... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1813 - 726 pàgines
...internal taxes upon the colonies is denied. What real difference can there be in this distinction ? A tax laid in any place, is like a pebble falling into, and making a circle in a lake, till pne circle produces and gives motion to another, and the whole circumference i* agitated from the centre... | |
 | Carlo Botta - 1837 - 508 pàgines
...is denied. What real difference can there be in this distinction ? Is not a tax, laid in any place, like a pebble falling into and making a circle in...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 pàgines
...is denied. What real difference can there be in this distinction ? Is not a tax, laid in any place, like a pebble falling into and making a circle in...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 - 1845 - 508 pàgines
...is denied. What real difference can there be in this distinction ? Is not a tax, laid in any place, like a pebble falling into and making a circle in...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... | |
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