 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 Writings of Henry David Thoreau - Page 150by Henry David Thoreau - 1893Full view - About this book
 | 1850 - 156 pages
...State will not hesitate which to choose. If one thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as...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 - 1890 - 158 pages
...• " " ~~ ~ '" " which to choose., If a thousand men were not to pay / their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and / bloody measure,...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceful revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer, or any other public officer, asks... | |
 | Henry S. Salt - 1890 - 340 pages
...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 measure, as...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 - 1901 - 324 pages
...will not hesitate * which to choose/NT a thousand men were not to pay their u\ -i L bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure,! ^*...would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit I violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the defini- 1 tion of a peaceful revolution,... | |
 | graf Leo Tolstoy - 1900 - 232 pages
...revolution of which Thoreau spoke : " If a thousand men were not to pay their tax bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceful revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax gatherer or any other public officer asks... | |
 | Aylmer Maude - 1901 - 352 pages
...the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceful revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer...officer asks me, as one has done, ' But what shall 1 do ? ' my answer is, 'If you really wish to do anything, resign your office.' When the subject has... | |
 | William Morton Payne - 1910 - 512 pages
...more—in the person of its taxgatherer. ... If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as...to commit violence and shed innocent blood." This explanation gives point to the bit of dialogue reported between Thoreau and Emerson when the latter... | |
 | Charles Van Doren, Charles Lincoln Van Doren, Robert McHenry - 1971 - 1530 pages
...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 measure, as it would be to pay them and enable the stale to commit violence and shed innocent blood. . . . I was put into a jail once on this account,... | |
 | Charles T. Sprading - 1913 - 550 pages
...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 measure, as...innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceful revolution, if any such is possible. If the tax-gatherer or any other public officer asks... | |
 | Henry David Thoreau - 1992 - 260 pages
...Suite 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 measure, as...peaceable revolution, if any such is possible. If the gatherer, or any other public officer, asks me, as one has done, "But what shall I do?" my answer is,... | |
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