Sydney Smith eBook

George William Erskine Russell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 279 pages of information about Sydney Smith.

Sydney Smith eBook

George William Erskine Russell
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 279 pages of information about Sydney Smith.
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Of these articles, sixty-five were reprinted by the author and are to be found in his Works.  Those which he did not reprint are the following:—­

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APPENDIX B

“We can inform Jonathan what are the inevitable consequences of being too fond of glory; TAXES upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot—­taxes upon every thing which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell, or taste—­taxes upon warmth, light, and locomotion—­taxes on every thing on earth and the waters under the earth, on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home—­taxes on the raw material—­taxes on every fresh value that is added to it by the industry of man—­taxes on the sauce which pampers man’s appetite, and the drug that restores him to health—­on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal—­on the poor man’s salt, and the rich man’s spice—­on the brass nails of the coffin, and the ribands of the bride.  At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay—­the schoolboy whips his taxed top—­the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road;—­and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent.—­flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent—­and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.  His whole property is then immediately taxed front 2 to 10 per cent.  Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble; and he is then gathered to his fathers—­to be taxed no more.”—­Review of Seybert’s “America” in the Collected Works.

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