 | John Bohn - 1843
...I/. 16s. 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 James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1878
...was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." — Psalm Ixxiv, 5. J " OATS, ns A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." — Johnson's Dictionary. Of course this was " meant sarkastic " by the great lexicographer, but Scotsmen... | |
 | JOHN BOHN, 17, HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN - 1843
...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.... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844
...interstices between the 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...paused, and felt some ' compunctious visitings' before he accepted a pension himself! Oats he defines, ' isease ; Yet, merciful in chastening, gave thee scope For mild redeeming virtues, faith and This gave mortal offence to the natives of Scotland, and is hardly yet forgiven ; but the best reply... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844
...ridiculed. For example, 'Excise,' which (as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act) he defines, ' Л $ wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be 'an allowance made to any... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1884
...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 - 1848
...' 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... | |
 | 1853
...the same category. The inconveniences arising from the use of maize, lentils, peas, rye, and that " grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people" (Johnson), chestnuts, almonds. &c., are due, according to our author, to the great demand they make... | |
 | James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1848 - 874 Seiten
...circumstances. — Gent. Mag., vol. Iv. P. 100. — CHOKER. 3 Johnson, In his Dictionary, defines " BXCISR, a hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common Judeei of property, but by vrctcha hired by those to whom excise is paid ;" and, in the Idler (No.... | |
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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. 
