...taxes on life's necessities. In 1755, Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary had defined the excise as ‘a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged...judges of property but wretches hired by those to whom it is paid.' These wretches were the excise men who were permitted to keep for themselves a portion...

...EXTENSIONS Extraction and Optimal Taxation: Excises, Earmarked Taxes, and Government User Charges Excise—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. SAMUEL JOHNSON With rent extraction itself now...

...Preface, Johnson's mind appears to have been in such a state ofdepression, 1 He thus defines Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, bet wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid. The Commmssioners of Excise being offended by this...

...responsible for she collection of excise duties. Hobson does not share Johnson's detestation of excise: ‘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' (Dictionary). Commissioners could become wealthy...

...his definitions and quotations. Most of his definitions are succinct and pithy. Excise, for example, is "a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Lexicographer means "a harmless drudge, that busied himself in tracing the original,...

...whom they are now insulting?" Johnson's Dictionary definition of "Excise" is worth considering here: "A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...the common judges of property, but wretches hired by them to whom excise is paid." Cleeve's pamphlet may not be a particularly illuminating or well considered...

...grievance of the citizens of trans-Appalachia, who shared the historic British resentment of it as a “hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom it is paid.” 5 They also had practical, immediate reasons for...

...which Johnson replied, "What! My dears! Then you have been looking for them?") He defined "Excise" as "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 were so offended that they tried (but failed) to take...

...given to horses, but which in Scotland feeds the people'. Some were reckoned libellous, as 'Excise: A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid'. Not a few were self-effacing, like 'Lexicographer: A writer of dictionaries; a harmless...

...which Johnson replied, "What! My dears! Then you have been looking for them?") He defined "Excise" as "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 were so offended that they tried (but failed) to take...