 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 páginas
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. "EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid]."1' 1 The commissioners of excise being offended by this severe reflection, consulted Mr. Murray,... | |
 | Alexander Johnston, James Gallatin, 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 not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." And he quotes as illustrations of the use of the word:... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 páginas
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people}. " EICISC [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid].1 Zvhary Fearc«, born In 1690, was the son of a distiller In Hirb Holboni : be was educated... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 páginas
...weaknesses of that extraordinary man. — CHOKER. 3 Johnson, In his Dictionary, defines "EXCISE, a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretcht» hired by those to whom excise is paid ;" and, in the Idler (No.65.), he calls a Commissioner... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1860 - 524 páginas
...definition of " Excise " is a faint echo : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." On the 14th of March, Sir Eobert brought forward his plan. He denied that he had ever intended a General... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - 1860 - 648 páginas
...edition of his " Dictionary " in 1756 :— " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." It was not, therefore, a vain alarm which was raised by the opposition. The response to its tocsin... | |
 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 páginas
...may be regarded as representing the spirit of his party, when he defined the word "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." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 páginas
...published ' A Dictionary of the English Language,' in which are the following words : " ' EXCISE, n. 8. 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... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1863 - 344 páginas
...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...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents and their tub-men, From sheriffs' bailiffs,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1863 - 354 páginas
...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...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents and their tub-men, From sheriffs' bailiffs,... | |
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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. 
