 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1827 - 622 pages
...praise of perfection, which if I could obtain in this gloom of solitude, t Hethusdefines 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.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1827 - 576 pages
...praise of perfection, which if I coula obtain in this gloom of solitude, t He thus defines Excise—" A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common juogee of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid." The Commissioners of ExcUe... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...ridiculed. For example, ' Excise,' which—as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act—he delines, '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.' to a state-hireling for treason to his country.'... | |
 | Books - 1831 - 652 pages
...authorities, were manifestly in the great Lexicographer's mind, when he explained the word, " Excise," as " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Boswell relates, that the Excise Commissioners being greatly offended by this severe... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], EXCISE Qn 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 ']. Talking to me upon this subject when we were... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1832 - 650 pages
...Johnson's hitherto most unintelligible prejudices :— ' Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines " 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 ;" and in the Idler (No. 65) he calls a Commitsioner... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...hi» very year, chief magistrate of the city.—ED.] 1 [Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines "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;" and in the Idler (Xo. 65), he calls a 2 [The romantic... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people'}. " 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. (')]" And a few more, cannot be fully 'defended,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 366 pages
...strait circumstances. — Gent. Mag., vol. Iv. p. 100. (2) Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines " 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;" and, in the Idler (No. 65.), he calls a Commissioner... | |
 | John Harrison - Chronometers - 1835 - 338 pages
...Jacobite prejudices of the literary colossus were laugh* Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines " 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;" and in the Idler (No. 65) he calls a Commissioner... | |
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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.' 
