 | Robert Chambers - 1830 - 844 pages
...For example, ' Excise,' which — as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act — he delines, 'A ged for usi-less ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' After such a tion, it is scarcely to be wondered that... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pages
...this title, EXCISE, are the following words : • • EXCISE, ai (Accijs, Duteh ; Ezcisum, Latin.) A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretehes hired by those to whom excise is paid. •• • /•''•• people thould pay a ratable... | |
 | 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, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Boswell relates, that the Excise Commissioners being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1831 - 600 pages
...Under this title, EXCISE, are the following words : "EXCISE, fi. i. (Accijs, Dutch; Excisum, Latin.) A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, out wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. " ' The people iliould pay a ratable tax far their... | |
 | 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 - 1832 - 650 pages
...Johnson's hitherto most unintelligible prejudices : — ' Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines " EXCISE, a hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...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 all human beings."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pages
...life somewhat2 romantick, but so well authenticated 1 [Johnson, in his Dictionary, defines "EXCISE, a hateful tax, levied upon commodities, and adjudged...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid;" and in the Idler i \o. 65), he calls a , Commissioner of Excise "one of the lowest of all human beings."... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1834 - 788 pages
...Johnson, to prove "Taxation no Tyranny." Yet even Dr. Johnson defines an excise "a hateful tax levied on commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges...of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid." The Doctor had in mind, perhaps, when he composed this definition in all the vehemence... | |
 | John Harrison - 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,...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 all human beings."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
..."Under this title, EXCISE, are the following words: "Excise, ns (Accijs, Dutch; Excisum, Latin.) — A wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. " ' The people should pay a ratable tax for their shoes,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pages
...' A Dictionary of the English Language,' in which are the following words: — " ' EXCISE, ». s. A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges o'f property, but wretches iioners . Whevhether it is not proper to proceed against the author, printers, and publishers... | |
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A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. 
