 | British essayists - 1802 - 220 pàgines
...Commissioners of Excise in the IDLER is, in truth, a sequel to his definition of Excise in his Dictionary ; " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...by wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid." Mr. BOSWELL was informed that the Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection,... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1802 - 990 pàgines
...all caufcs touching the revenues are handled. *Ifarru. EXCI'SE. [¿«."i, Dutch ; exciium, Latin,] A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property. Afjrvil. Ta EXCI'SE. i). a. [from the noun.] To levy «cife upon a perlón or thirtg. Pepe. EXCl'SEMAN.... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pàgines
...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Excise. — A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. . — The name of a faction, Sec. Johnson, in all probability, inserted such defini. tions in his Dictionary... | |
 | James Boswell - 1807 - 514 pàgines
...to the press : but the printer had more wit than 1, and struck it out." ' He thus defines 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." The commissioners of Excise being oftended by tlu's... | |
 | 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 - 644 pàgines
...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."... | |
 | 1816 - 778 pàgines
...CHANCELLOR, § 1, titf. 4 ; and § VIII. . (i.) * EXCISE. »./'. [acriji, Dutch ; txclfum^ Latin.) A hateful tax levied upon commodities^ and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretphes hired by thofe to whom. ex. cife is paid. — The people fhould pay a ratable ta^ for their... | |
 | James Boswell - 1817 - 466 pàgines
...being at Florence, presented it to the Academia della Critsca. That Academy to whom Excise is paid.' The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this severe reflection, consulted Mr. Murray, then Attorney General, to know whether redress could be legally obtained. I wished to have procured for... | |
 | 1818 - 596 pàgines
...var, dat he lose one eye at Cape Breton, one armf; in the combat of Monsieur Conflans, * Ercwe — a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches, hired by those to wnom Excise is paid. — Vide Johnson's Dictionary. \- Gazetteer — It.... | |
 | James Boswell - 1820 - 442 pàgines
...the words is not explained ; as his Tory, Whig, Pension, Oats, Excise,^. s He thns defines Excise, 'A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those and a few more cannot be fully defended, and muet be placed to the account... | |
 | James Boswell - 1821 - 388 pàgines
...Pension, Oats, Ex-. else,i and a few more, cannot be fully defended, and 1 He thus defines 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.' The Commissioners of Excise being offended by this... | |
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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. 
