 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1799 - 640 pages
...the English Language," in which are the following words: — ' " 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 Commissioners of Excise, they desire... | |
 | James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...the English Language," in which are the following words: — ' " 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 Commissioners of Excise, they desire... | |
 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pages
...is, in truth, a sequel to his definition of Excise in his Dictionary ; " 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." Mr. BOSWELL was informed that the Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - English literature - 1806 - 328 pages
...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. . — The name of a faction, Sec. Johnson, in all probability, inserted such defini.... | |
 | 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 - 644 pages
...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 Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...which — as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act — he delines, 'A hateful tax levied upon een all her triumphs but destruction haste, excise is paid.' to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' After such a tion, it is scarcely... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 604 pages
...possess till 1768. — ED.] 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 of Excise " one of the lowest... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people] . EXCISE [« hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...property, but by WRETCHES hired by those 'to whom excise is paid ']. 1 The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection, consulted... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1831 - 600 pages
...generally given to horses, but i 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 ']. 1 The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection,! consulted... | |
 | 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
...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 Commissioner of Excise " one of the lowest of... | |
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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 ']. 1 The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection,! 
