 | John Hunter (of Uxbridge.) - 1860 - 300 pages
...representing the spirit of his party, when he defined the word "excise " as '' a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville, who professed Whig principles,... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1860 - 960 pages
...following words : — " Case for Ute opinion of Mr. Attorney-General. " ' 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... | |
 | Theology - 1863 - 924 pages
...eye, and a manifest inward chuckle, as in the well-known definition of excise : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...wretches, hired by those to whom excise is paid." Oats excite him to the following utterance, which he doubtless penned with sardonic satisfaction :... | |
 | Evan Daniel - 1863 - 298 pages
...representing the spirit of his party, when he defined the word " excise " as " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which was Mr. Grenville, who professed Whig principles,... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch - Debts, Public - 1863 - 548 pages
...excise is well known. In his Dictionary he baa gone so far as to defin.; it " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), then AttomeyGeneral, being consulted by the Commissioners of Excise,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 344 pages
...all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary defined it to be "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." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents... | |
 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 354 pages
...all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary denned it to be " 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." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents... | |
 | Bernard Quaritch - Booksellers' catalogs - 1864 - 644 pages
...some carious explanations suppressed by subsequent editors ; ns, " Excise, a hutefat levied upon the commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by tbwiU whom excise is paid." " LEXICOGRAPHER, a harmless drudge." " PENSION, an allowance made to any... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 pages
...Cough — A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise — a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. «e* With the same zeal as of a saint ; sso Could prove a Sibyl brighter far Than Venus or the Morning... | |
 | Henry Clay Dean - Sinking-funds - 1869 - 562 pages
...informer upon you. Dr Johnson has happily defined these men — " EXCISE :^afr/ftZ (ax levied iipon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." " With hundred rows of teeth the shark exceeds, And on all trades like Gussawur she feeds." — MANEL.... | |
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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. 
