 | 1876 - 602 páginas
...calls the bridge near the " Nelson " Inn, on the road between Morden and Ewell, over the * Excite, ft hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of çroçetCs, wretches hired by those — son't Dictionary. little tributary that runs into the Thames... | |
 | James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 940 páginas
...which are the following worst : «— " Cate for tke opinion of Mr. Attorney-General. " ' KXCISR, ns 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. " The author's definition being observed by the... | |
 | Joshua Toulmin Smith - 1853 - 200 páginas
...establishment of that ever obnoxious Impost, which Dr. Johnson, In hla Dictionary, define« м «la hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...the common judges of property, but wretches hired by these to whom excise Is paid.* Under snob a system, there WM во " Standlag Army " In the modern tense.... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 364 páginas
...the intersections. Cough—A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise—A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. This definition of the word Excise gave great offence to government, and the opinions... | |
 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 378 páginas
...the intersections. Cough—A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by gome sharp serosity. Excise—A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. Thin definition of the word Excise gave great offence to government, and the opinions... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 páginas
...series be formed of senses in their nature, collateral?" Again, when Johnson defines " Excise," to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...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. In England... | |
 | Press - 1857 - 294 páginas
...excise scheme of Walpole were fresh in every one's recollection. He therefore defines the excise as " 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." Subsequently in the Idler (No. 65), he describes... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1858 - 426 páginas
...out into parallel ramifications, how can a consecutive Again, when Johnson defines " Excise," to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...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. In England... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Gallatin, Townsend Ward, William Penn, William Bradford Reed, Charles John Biddle - 1858 - 446 páginas
...Johnson, the English lexicographer, and author of " Taxation no Tyranny," in fact, defines it as—"A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." And he quotes as illustrations of the use of the word: " Excise, with hundred rows... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 414 páginas
...be formed of senses in their nature collateral V' X Again, when Johnson defines " Excise/' to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...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. In England... | |
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