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The article headed as below , in the ' Edinburgh Review , 'just published , is a Whig homily on a Tory text It is an amplification , with an application to existing circumstances , of the memorable rebuke which Lord Castlereagh administered to the English
people for their ignorant impatience of taxation . It is a defence of taxation upon consumption and industry as opposed to taxation upon property . It denounces the ' monstrous principle th at * because a man has , by superior sagacity , ingenuity , or economy * accumulated a fortune , he shall be liable ., not only to a greater amount , but also to a heavier rate of taxation than others I' and
it vituperates , In most unmeasured terms * those who desire , by amending the fiscal system at present pursued , to make the public burdens fall on the shoulders that best can bear them . They are ' destructives , ' revolutionists , ' ' would be tyrants ; ' their pretences ' hypocritical / their designs selfish ; ' and their plans ' iniquitous and * insane . ' All these amiable and convincing figures of speech
are accumulated in one short paragraph , and hurled at the heads of those who are simple enough to press upon Lord Althorp , now that he is in office , the adoption of what he affirmed would be ' a very good measure / when he was in opposition . Then ' it was the ill-arranged state of the taxes that pressed heavily on the country ;' now , the system is bottomed on sound principles . ' No longer ago than March , 1830 , the present Chancellor of the Exchequer had
' no hesitation * in advocatihg the reduction of taxes and the imposition of a property-tax to meet the deficiency ; ' now , the bare mention of such a proposition shows a taste for anarchy , confusion , and universal ruin . These are the things which disgust people with public men and political parties . Every honest nature recoils at the loathsome hypocrisy , and stands aghast at the impudence which connects with it the demand of confidence and the abuse of
those who will not follow the lfeaders in their shameless tergiversation . Look at the dishonesty of the sentence just quoted , the description of the * monstrous principle . ' If by a heavier rate of taxation be meant one which bears more heavily upon the rich ? No . 116 , Article f . Complaints and Proposals regarding Taxation .
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On the Defence bf the ttoutie cthd Window Tux . 575
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ON THE DEFENCE OF THE HOUSE ANt > WINDOW TAX , IN tfifi EDINBURGH REVIEW . *
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been too exclusive in their views . Indirectly those theories must have had influence on the 6 utward form of the Christian Scriptures . The canon was formed in the very midst of these influences ;
and a just appreciation of the spirit and tendency of the Gnostic systems cannot fail to be among the most useful aids to an enlightened interpretation , if not of the three first gospels , yet at least of that of John , and of the controversial writitigs of the abrupt and enigmatical Paul .
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1833, page 575, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2620/page/63/
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