 | Susan Parman - 2005 - 216 Seiten
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 | Douglas Templeton - 2004 - 394 Seiten
...in my Salt: The Plot of This Book Oats Is defined by the learned Doctor (Samuel Johnson 1805 sv) as 'a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people'. And, after: 'The oats have eaten the horses' (from [the better known] Shakespeare) a certain person,... | |
 | Timothy Wilson-Smith - 2004 - 174 Seiten
...idiosyncratic definitions. A lexicographer is A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge.™ Oats is A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the peopled He was almost prosecuted for libel because he maintained that excise, a recent and unpopular... | |
 | Neil Wilson - 2004 - 232 Seiten
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 | James Boswell - 2005 - 660 Seiten
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 | Walter R. Lawrence, Sir Walter Roper Lawrence - 2005 - 554 Seiten
...publican's man would wait till the violets were withered and then claim 1 Cf. Dr. Johnson's definition of Excise : ' A hateful tax levied upon commodities,...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' CHAP. XVII. a weight of violets probably double the... | |
 | Robert Malcolm Murray, Nebojsa Kujundzic - 2005 - 546 Seiten
...accused of inserting some of his own biases into the work. Consider the following droll selections: Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. (Samuel Johnson, A Dictionary of the English Language, 1755) Lexicographer. A writer of dictionaries;... | |
 | Henry Hitchings - 2005 - 316 Seiten
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 | Marina Dossena - 2005 - 196 Seiten
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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. 
