 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pagina’s
...1755, the word EXClSE is explained as " A " hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by " common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to " whom excise is paid ! " Thus the public mind being highly sensitive, and easily excited upon the subject, and Walpole,... | |
 | Philip Alexander Prince - 1843 - 790 pagina’s
...Johnson, who gave such a definition of the excise in his celebrated dictionary, as, ' that it was a hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid' — if that wise and good man had lived to see the real superiority of this mode of taxation, through... | |
 | John Bohn - 1843 - 448 pagina’s
...1755 This edition contains some curious explanations suppressed by subsequent editors; rg " EXCISE, a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. LBXICOGRAPBEE, a harmless drudge. PENSION, an allow.... | |
 | JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN - 1843 - 832 pagina’s
...edition contains some curious explanations suppressed by subsequent editors; rg " EXCISK, ahatrful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. LEXICOGRAPHER, a harmless drudge. PKNIION, an allow.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...ridiculed. For example, ' Excise,' which (as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act) he defines, ' A with more than learning's wisdom wise ! As sainted martyrs, patient to endure ! Simple as u wretches lured by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be ' an allowance made to... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 392 pagina’s
...intersections. Cough — A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise — A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property; bat wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. This definition of the word Excise gave great offence... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1884 - 522 pagina’s
...reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections,' and excise as ' a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' Yet for one instance of this class scores of admirable... | |
 | James Boswell - 1846 - 602 pagina’s
...grain which in-Eneland is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid 2] . 1 He owus in his Preface tlie deficiency of the technical part of lib work ; and he said he should... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 pagina’s
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. " EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise it paid]." • for a party, and a commlssionerof excise." The persons to whom he alludes were Mr. John... | |
 | James Boswell - 1848 - 374 pagina’s
...A Dictionary of the English Language," in which are the following words : — " ' EXCISE, 71. s. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' " The author's definition being observed by the commissioners... | |
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A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. 
