is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.' Blackwood's Magazine - Page 679 1927 Full view - About this book
...would wait till the violets were withered and then claim 1 Cf. Dr. Johnson's definition of Excise : ' A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' 3H CHAP. XVII. a weight of violets probably double the amount produced in the village....
is a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid.' 
