| 1743 - 642 páginas
...they are about ; and the more they drink, the more ripe they grow for any wickednefs or extravagance. Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax upon a breach of the ten commandments... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1743 - 588 páginas
...to drown Sorrow, and lofe in the Delights of Drunkennefs both the publick Miferies and his own. • Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but Vice prohibited, let the Difficufties in executing the Law be what they will. Would you lay a Tax upon a Breach of the Ten Commandments... | |
| Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords - 1743 - 596 páginas
...afleep, to drown Sorrow, and lofe in the Delights of Drunkennefs both the publick Miferies and his own. ' Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but Vice prohibited, let the Difficulties in executing the Law be v. hat they will. Would you lay a Tax upon the Breach of the Ten... | |
| Philip Dormer Stanhope Earl of Chesterfield - 1779 - 490 páginas
...afleep, to drown forrow, and lofe in the delights of drunkennefs both the public miferies and his own. Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax upon a breach of the ten commandments... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 512 páginas
...asleep, to drown sorrow, and lose in the delights of drunkenness both the publick miseries and his own. Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax upon the breach of the ten... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1808 - 518 páginas
...asleep, to drown sorrow, and lose in the delights of drunkenness both the publick miseries and his own. Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax upon the breach of the ten... | |
| 596 páginas
...the House of Peers. In 1743 Lord Chesterfield thus exposed the deceiver and its manufacturers : — " Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited,...commandments ? Would not such a tax be wicked and scandalous ? It appears to me that since the spirit which the distillers produce is allowed to enfeeble the limbs,... | |
| Harmon Kingsbury - 1849 - 244 páginas
...ago. They will not, of course, be subject to the charge of emanating from a source too puritanic : " Luxury, my lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited. Let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will — would you lay a tax upon the breach of the... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 978 páginas
...asleep, to drown sorrow, and lose in the delights of drunkenness both the public miseries and his own. Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be svhat they will. Would you lay a tax on the breach of the ten... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1852 - 976 páginas
...asleep, to drown sorrow, and lose in the delights of drunkenness both the public miseries and bis own. Luxury, my Lords, is to be taxed, but vice prohibited, let the difficulties in executing the law be what they will. Would you lay a tax on the breach of the ten commandments... | |
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