Tyranny Unmasked: An Answer to a Late Pamphlet Entitled Taxation no Tyranny
- Jack P. Greene (collection editor)
- Anonymous Pamphleteer 1775 (author)
Written in response to Samuel Johnson’s Taxation no Tyranny, this pamphlet dismisses Johnson’s arguments as unworthy of response, except for the fact that they are “irritating to Englishmen.” The author makes much of Johnson’s receipt of a government pension, calling him a “slave of state…hired by his stipend to obey his master in all things.” His most telling blow is to quote from Johnson’s poem ”London,” an earlier work in defense of liberty, as an argument against Johnson’s later pamphlet.
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