 | James Boswell - 1831 - 602 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 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."... | |
 | James Boswell - 1833 - 1182 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
..."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 pàgines
...' 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... | |
 | Earl Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope - 1841 - 464 pàgines
...1755, the word EXClSE is explained as " A " hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by " common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to " whom excise is paid ! " Thus the public mind being highly sensitive, and easily excited upon the subject, and Walpole,... | |
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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. 
