 | Cobden Club (London, England) - Commerce - 1872 - 574 pages
...direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in anything which has heretofore been recorded in civil history,...large amounts through taxation, the only principle recognised —if it can be called a principle—was akin to that recommended to the traditionary Irishman... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1872 - 382 pages
...direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in anything which has heretofore been recorded in civil history,...large amounts through taxation the only principle recognised — if it can be called a principle — was akin to that recommended to the traditionary... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Currency question - 1872 - 80 pages
...direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in anything which has heretofore been recorded in civil history,...necessity of the situation was revenue, and to obtain it speedilyand in large amounts through taxation, the only principle recognized — if it can be called... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1873 - 362 pages
...a system of internal and direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in any thing which has heretofore been...recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair, 'Wherever you see a head hit it.' Wherever you find an article, a product, a trade,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - Constitutional history - 1882 - 426 pages
...direct taxation, which for its universality and peculiarities has probably no parallel in anything which has heretofore been recorded in civil history,...recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair, ' Wherever you see a head hit it.' Wherever you find an article, a product, a trade,... | |
 | Science - 1896 - 978 pages
...anything which had theretofore been recorded in civil history, or is likely to be thereafter. The great necessity of the situation was revenue, and to obtain...it speedily and in large amounts through taxation was the only principle recognized (if it can be called a principle), and was akin to that recommended... | |
 | Winthrop More Daniels - Finance - 1899 - 410 pages
...revenue system was a sweeping measure.1 " The one necessity of the situation," as Mr. Wells 2 puts it, " was revenue, and to obtain it speedily and in large...recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair: 'Whenever you see a head, hit it.' Whenever you find an article, a product, a trade,... | |
 | David Ames Wells - Taxation - 1900 - 668 pages
...anything which had theretofore been recorded in civil history, or is likely to be hereafter. The great necessity of the situation was revenue, and to obtain...it speedily and in large amounts through taxation was the only principle recognised (if it can be called a principle), and was akin to that recommended... | |
 | Harry Edwin Smith - Internal revenue - 1914 - 404 pages
...At first glance one would be inclined to say that there was not. Mr. David A. Wells has aptly said, "The only principle recognized — if it can be called...recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair, 'Wherever you see a head, hit it.' Wherever you find an article, a product, a trade,... | |
 | Brookings Institution. Institute for Government Research - United States - 1923 - 292 pages
...appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury in 1865, said of the internal tax system of the Civil War that " The only principle recognized — if it can be called...recommended to the traditionary Irishman on his visit to Donnybrook Fair, ' whenever you see a head, hit it,' whenever you find an article, a product, a trade,... | |
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... which has heretofore been recorded in civil history, or is likely to be experienced hereafter. The one necessity of the situation was revenue, and to obtain it speedily and in large amounts through taxation the only principle recognized — if it... 
