 | Benjamin Franklin - 1818 - 542 pagina’s
...than foreigners can supply us, and to confine the duty there to keep up the exercise of the right. They have no idea that any people can act from any...believe that three pence in a pound of tea, of which one docs not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to overcome all the patriotism of an American.... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1833 - 490 pagina’s
...than foreigners can supply us, and to confine the duty there to keep .up the exercise of the right. They have no idea that any people can act from any...principle but that of interest; and they believe that three-pence in a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient... | |
 | Richard Frothingham - 1872 - 678 pagina’s
...confine the duty here, to keep up the exercise of the right of taxation. " They," Franklin wrote, " have no idea that any people can act from any other...that of interest ; and they believe that three pence on a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to overcome... | |
 | Edward Howland - 1877 - 858 pagina’s
...by the House of Lords, and on the 10th received the royal assent. Franklin wrote of the measure: " They have no idea that any people can act from any...that of interest ; and they believe that three pence on a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds a year, is sufficient to overcome... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1898 - 458 pagina’s
...colonies. " They have no idea," he wrote, " that any people 1 Dartmouth Corrupondence, January 19, 1773. can act from any other principle but that of interest ; and they believe that threepence in a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient... | |
 | Paul Leicester Ford - 1899 - 554 pagina’s
...it will be) is a national cause, when in fact it is a ministerial one." The British, he maintained, "have no idea that any people can act from any other...but that of interest ; and they believe that three 436 pence in a pound of tea, of which one does perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 1899 - 306 pagina’s
...America, and thus keep alive the right of Parliament to tax the colonies. "They have no idea," he wrote, "that any people can act from any other principle but that of interest; and they believe that threepence in a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1900 - 274 pagina’s
...to Lord North's tax on tea, Franklin said: "The inventors of this noble piece of political chicanery have no idea that any people can act from any other...principle but that of interest ; and they believe that threepence in a pound of tea, of which one does perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - 1904 - 492 pagina’s
...America than foreigners can supply us, and confine the duty there, to keep up the exercise of the right. They have no idea that any people can act from any...that three pence in a pound of tea, of which one does perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to overcome all the patriotism of an American. I... | |
 | Charles William August Veditz, Bartlett Burleigh James - 1904 - 614 pagina’s
...opposed to principle the principle would be yielded. Franklin, commenting upon the fatuous notion, wrote: "They have no idea that any people can act from any...principle but that of interest ; and they believe that threepence on a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient... | |
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They have no idea that any people can act from any other principle but that of interest; and they believe that three-pence in a pound of tea, of which one does not perhaps drink ten pounds in a year, is sufficient to overcome all the patriotism of an... 
