...Johnson's Dictionary testifies, where, under the word excise, he gives the following definition: " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." To the Jews, the degradation of the publican was only a little less than that of the...

...such men ? " ///-nature also found vent in some of the definitions. " Excise " is thus defined : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid'' Johnson was a staunch Tory, and hated, of course, Walpole and the Whig Excise-Act....

...such men ? " ///-nature also found vent in some of the definitions. " Excise " is thus defined : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid." Johnson was a staunch Tory, and hated, of course, Walpole and the Whig Excise-Act....

...after telling Cor. ft Ad.—Line 28 : On Excise, put the following note : He thus defines Excise: " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid." The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection, consulted Mr....

...Government. Johnson's definition of Excise in his Dictionary is well known: "Ahateful taxleviedupon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges...wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid." 507 Midas. A mythical king of Phrygia, to whom Dionysus, in return for his hospitality, granted that...

...curious explanations «uppressed by subsequent editors ; as, " Excise, a hâterai tax levied upon the commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." "Lexicographer, a harmless drudge." "Pension an allowance made to any one without...

...has been odious to the people of England;" and which is very accurately defined by Dr. Johnson 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." Class legislation, which stares out from almost...

...' Excise' are the following words :— ' EXCISE, ns (aecijs, Dutch: extisum, Latin), a hateful tai levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but u-reUha hired by those to whom Exist is paid. '" The people should pay a rateable tax for their sheep,...

...well-known definition of ' Excise,' in the first edition of his Dictionary, illustrates this aversion : ' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' L. 117. Sapnho : See note to Ep. II. 24. L. 118. tin-.! they fear : As they get old...

...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 of property, 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...