 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 278 pages
...health ; on the ermine which decorates the judge, and the rope which hangs the criminal ; on the pqor man's salt, and the rich man's spice ; on the brass...has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, i and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has ' paid a license of a hundred... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pages
...school-boy whips his taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road : — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 pages
...taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, on a taxed saddle, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back on his chintz .bed which... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pages
...schoolboy whips his taxed top : the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle, on drunk in the streets, or making a noise in a tavern,...however, being on that account exempted from the fines. lias paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 pages
...The dying Englishman pours his medicine which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon which has paid 15 per cent. ; flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent. ; makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 780 pages
...costs every year would support five or six such colleges as Harvard, or Yale, ot YJM\.mo\xVtv\\ ing his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. — and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 pages
...moment in which he is writing of the insignificance of the former and the importance of the latter. The dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chints bed which has paid twenty-two... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1851 - 768 pages
...not by the government, for it would not risk even one million to confer the blessings of cheap ing his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fiftcen per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent.... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 370 pages
...seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chints bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds... | |
 | Rev. Daniel Smith - 1852 - 278 pages
...youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman pours his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into...his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of his apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
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The schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid... 
