 If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution,...  The Slavery of Our Times - Pagina xxde graf Leo Tolstoy - 1900 - 186 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1850 - 156 pagini
...just men in prison, or give up war and slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If one thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this...enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent Wood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer,... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1866 - 314 pagini
...slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their taxbills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1890 - 158 pagini
...hesitate .i *—- • " " ~~ ~ '" " which to choose., If a thousand men were not to pay / their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and / bloody...peaceful revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, " But what shall I do ? " my answer... | |
 | Henry Stephens Salt - 1890 - 340 pagini
...Government, directly, and face to face, once a year — no more — in the person of its tax-gatherer. ... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax -bills...State to commit violence and shed innocent blood." y So when his "civil neighbor," the tax-gatherer, came to Thoreau for the poll-tax, it was refused... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 452 pagini
...slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 462 pagini
...slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 454 pagini
...slavery, the State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1893 - 456 pagini
...State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this Jrear, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a 'peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1896 - 222 pagini
...more — in the person of its tax-gatherer. . . . If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...State to commit violence and shed innocent blood." 1 So when his " civil neighbour," the tax-gatherer, came to Thoreau for the poll-tax, it was refused... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1898 - 462 pagini
...slavery,._the_ State will not hesitate which to choose. If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
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