 | James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...reports (p. 460), did not 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... | |
 | 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, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1832 - 616 pages
...[a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. ETCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common iudges of properly, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid3]. ' He owns in In- Preface... | |
 | 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 not by the common judges of property, bat by wretches hired by those to whom excise H paid;" and in the Idler (No. 65), he calls a , Commitiioner... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 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 excise is paid. (')]" And a few more, cannot be fully 'defended,... | |
 | 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, 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... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pages
...grain irhich in England is g-enerally 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 i$ paid3]. 1 He owns in his Preface tin; deficiency of the... | |
 | James Boswell - 1837 - 616 pages
..."Under this title, EXCISE, are the following word«: "ExcisE, ns (Accijs, Dutch; Excisum, Latin.) — A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of prop«rty, but wretches hired by those to whom excise • paid. " ' The people should pay a ratable... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1839 - 584 pages
...Johnson's famous definition of the term excise — "a hateful tax levied upon property, and judged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid " — was shown to him, immediately pronounced it a gross libel, but, at the same time, strongly recommended... | |
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Excise. 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. 
