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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.' "
Blackwood's Magazine - Page 679
1927
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Outlines of English history [signed J.H.]. 1st [-9th]

John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...Tory, 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...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville, who professed...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 980 pages
...which are the following words : — " Case for Ute opinion of Mr. Attorney-General. " ' EXCISE, ns 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. " The author's definition being observed by the...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides, Volume 34

James Boswell - 1860 - 948 pages
...and 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 judget of property, but by trretcht» hired by those to whom excise is paid ;" and, in the Idler (...
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Outlines of English history

Evan Daniel - 1863 - 376 pages
...Tory, may be regarded as representrag the spirit of his party, when he defined 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." : 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville, who professed...
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Outlines of English history

Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pages
...Tory, 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...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville, who professed...
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The cavalier songs and ballads of England, from 1642 to 1684, ed. by C. Mackay

Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 354 pages
...hundred 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 not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and "Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a ..., Volume 2

Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1864 - 376 pages
...the intersections. Cough—A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise—A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. This definition of the word Excise gave great offence to government, and the opinions...
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A Catalogue of Books, Arranged in Classes: Comprising All Departments of ...

Bernard Quaritch - Booksellers' catalogs - 1864 - 622 pages
...curious explanations suppressed by subsequent editors; as, " Excise, a haletai toa levied upon the commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by tho« В whom excise is paid." " LKXICOOKAI-HKTI, a harmles* drmlge." " PENSION, an allowance made...
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Lectures on English Literatures from Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - English literature - 1866 - 502 pages
...series be formed of senses in their nature collateral?" X Again, when Johnson defines "Excise," to be "a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid:" and Pension, to be "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England...
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The poetical works of Charles Churchill, with notes by W. Tooke ..., Volume 2

Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 pages
...the intersections. lough—A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise—a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. Such the confused and horrid sounds Of Irish in potato grounds. But tired, for even...
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