Lucubrations Consisting of Essays Reveries C in Prose And Verse
Lucubrations Consisting of Essays Reveries C in Prose And Verse
Richard Graves
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c Qui confulta patrum, qui leges juraque fervat. '* HOR. " Things are not right. " Meat's that to you or me ? muft 'obey the pow'rs that be. norltmisq jntoii ^j ma ************* * * * ******** $ * * * ********* TAXOLOGY. Quoufque tandem, Gulielme, abutere patientia noftra ? quern ad finem fefe effraenata ja&abil au dacia? Cic. " TTOW long then, O thou daemon of * * Taxation ! how long wilt thou a- bufe our patience ? what bounds wilt thou prefcribe to thy enormous exa&ions on this devoted land ...? But whither fhall we fly then from thy incefTant perfecutions ? if we go into France, thou art there ; if we pafs into Holland, thou art there alfo j if we fly to the utmoft parts of the Bail, even there thy [ 9 1 thy rapacious claws will feize us ! or if we crofs the Atlantic, thou rageft with tenfold fury in the Utopian ftates of America !" Thus I went on, profanely murmuring, 'punning, and quibbling upon the rapid in- creafe of our Taxes j and added, that we muft furely return again to our berries and acorns, and drink of the yet-unexcifed lim- pid dreams when, in the midft of my fedt- tious exclamations, an old foldier, who had loft an arm and a leg in the fervice, came towards the door : " Well, foldier, " faid I, " you are but in wretched plight ; however, you have no land-tax or houfe-tax to pay.
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