 | William Bleakley - 1877 - 66 pages
...This second edition contains many of the fierce definitions, afterwards suppressed, as '. Excise—a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid," etc. 259 JOHNSON. HISTORY OF RASSELAS. Printed by Whittingham. Portrait and plates.... | |
 | Peter Hastie - Book auctions - 1877 - 590 pages
...contains many of the fierce definitions afterwards suppressed, as " Excise, a hateful tax levied npon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise Is paid," etc. X 6790 JOHNSON. English Dictionary greatly enlarged, and improved with the Addition... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1877 - 420 pages
...Tweed, by his-definitions of Excise, Pension, and Oats. Excise he defines as " A hateful tax, levied on commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England... | |
 | John Owens - Internal revenue - 1879 - 582 pages
...writers. Under the title ' Excise' are the following words :—Excise, ns accijis, Dutch; excisum, Latin; a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...•wretches hired by those to whom the Excise is paid." " The author's definition being observed by the Commissioners of Excise, they desire the favour of... | |
 | Benjamin Vaughan Abbott - Law - 1879 - 1056 pages
...expressing the general prejudice which long prevailed in England against this mode of collecting a revenue: "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." Excise wae a name formerly confined to th<- imposition... | |
 | 1879 - 346 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 the excise is paid." Boswcll had a talk with him about these definitions... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...the intersections. Cough—A convulsion of the lungs vellicuted 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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...peculiarities, are somewhat amusing. As a Tory, hating Walpole and the Whig Excise Act, he defines excise as '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.' Pension is 'an allowance made to any one without... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1881 - 960 pages
...never consent to have expunged, of which excise is a well-known illustration. " Excise," he wrote, " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." After remarking which, Johnson's immense work, laden to the margins with its glorious... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1881 - 482 pages
...Tweed, by his-definitions of Excise, Pension, and Oats. Excise he defines as " A hateful tax, levied on commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England... | |
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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.' 
