 | Henry Reed - 1855 - Liczba stron: 416
...collateral?" Again, when Jolinson defines " Excise," to be (( 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 :" and Pension, to be "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - Liczba stron: 424
...collateral ?" Again, when Johnson defines "Excise," to be "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 :" and Pension, to be "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent.... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - Liczba stron: 300
...spirit of his party, when he defined the word "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." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - Liczba stron: 548
...In his Dictionary he baa gone so far as to defin.; it " 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." Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), then AttomeyGeneral, being consulted... | |
 | 1863 - Liczba stron: 924
...inward chuckle, as in the well-known definition of 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." Oats excite him to the following utterance, which he doubtless penned... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - Liczba stron: 298
...spirit of his party, when he defined the word " 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." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville,... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - 1864 - Liczba stron: 644
...explanations suppressed by subsequent editors ; ns, " Excise, a hutefat levied upon the commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by tbwiU whom excise is paid." " LEXICOGRAPHER, a harmless drudge." " PENSION, an allowance made to any... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - Liczba stron: 336
...the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. 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. «e* With the same zeal as of a saint ; sso Could prove a Sibyl brighter... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - 1869 - Liczba stron: 562
...you. Dr Johnson has happily defined these men — " EXCISE :^afr/ftZ (ax levied iipon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." " With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds, And on all trades like... | |
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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. 
