 | Craig Nelson - 2007 - 436 Seiten
...inspectors of coffee, tea, chocolate, tobacco, and alcohol, who collected what Dr. Johnson defined 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." Excisemen (whose ranks in time would also include... | |
 | Anne Holden Rønning, Lene Johannessen - 2007 - 278 Seiten
...the economically subordinate north, and Samuel Johnson could mock Scotland in his dictionary: "Oats a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." In these decades, the Scottish 'cultural cringe' was enshrined, boastful assertiveness being matched... | |
 | T. J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, Alan M. Taylor - 2007 - 431 Seiten
...English counties and Scotland. Dr. Johnson exaggerated only a little when he remarked that oats were "a grain which in England is generally given to horses but in Scotland Subsistence Income: Baskets of Goods, India supports the people." That was what they could afford on... | |
 | Anatoly Liberman - 413 Seiten
...reason. Johnson's definition of oats (inspired by Robert Burton? [G. Thompson 1887]) 'a grain, Oat Oat which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people' made Skinner's formulation offensive. Pictet (1859, 1:259), I. Meyer (1880:15), Wedgwood, and Mueller... | |
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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. 
