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" OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker. "
The Pulpit of the American Revolution: Or, The Political Sermons of the ... - Page 453
by John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 537 pages
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English and Scottish Sketches

Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...blessing to Scotland. The Scotch can afford to disregard Johnson's somewhat sarcastic definition of oats, "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Yes; and it supports them in comfort, health, and above all, in independence. Content with this simple...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1858 - 482 pages
...treason to his country], " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a 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,...
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Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of ríate hired by a stipend to obey his master], ** OATS undred and thirty-eight verses. Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted 2 , mentions Luke " EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property,...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Including a Journal of His Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - Authors, English - 1860 - 496 pages
...treason to his country']. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a 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,...
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The Bibliotheca Sacra and Biblical Repository, Volume 20

Theology - 1863 - 924 pages
...Oats excite him to the following utterance, which he doubtless penned with sardonic satisfaction : " A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The dictionary of Johnson was received with favor. Some over-nice and captious critics discovered faults...
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The Congregational Review, Volume 5

Congregationalism - 1865 - 654 pages
...mantled with a kind of sardonic smile, as when in his great dictionary he solemnly defined oats to be a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. We certainly would set down nothing here in malice, or under the impulse of an unthinking prejudice,...
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Under the crown

1869 - 632 pages
...antipathy to the Scotch ; in his Dictionary, for instance, you will find the following : — " Oats — a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Forgetting his own edition of Shakespeare, which came so far short of the expectations of the critics,...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1871 - 408 pages
...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with which...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - 1871 - 404 pages
...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very .plainly through the judicial gravity with which...
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Books and Reading: Or, What Books Shall I Read and how Shall I Read Them?

Noah Porter - Bibliography - 1871 - 406 pages
...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with which...
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