 | 1863 - 924 oldal
...well-satisfied twinkle of the eye, and a manifest inward chuckle, as in the well-known definition of excise : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...wretches, hired by those to whom excise is paid." Oats excite him to the following utterance, which he doubtless penned with sardonic satisfaction :... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - 1863 - 548 oldal
...prejudice against the excise is well known. In his Dictionary he baa gone so far as to defin.; it " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), then AttomeyGeneral, being consulted by the Commissioners of Excise,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1863 - 344 oldal
...hundred years later shared all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary defined it to be "a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1863 - 354 oldal
...hundred years later shared all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary denned it to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - 1864 - 644 oldal
...some carious 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 - 336 oldal
...the intersections. Cough — A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise — a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...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 far Than Venus or the Morning... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - 1869 - 562 oldal
...informer upon you. Dr Johnson has happily defined these men — " EXCISE :^afr/ftZ (ax levied iipon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." " With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds, And on all trades like Gussawur she feeds." — MANEL.... | |
 | 1871 - 838 oldal
...the first edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary testifies, in which, under the word Excise, he says, ," A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." To the Jews, the 32* TRADES AND INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS OF THE BIBLE. degradation of the publican was... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 392 oldal
...Tweed, by his -definitions of Excise, Pension, and Oats. Excise he defines as " A hateful tax, levied on commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1871 - 406 oldal
...Tweed, by his.definitions of Excise, Pension, and Oafs. Excise he defines as " A hateful tax, levied on commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally... | |
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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. 
