...peculiarities, are somewhat amusing. As a Tory, bating Walpole and the Whig Excise Act, he defines excise as 'a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged,...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' Pension is 'an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England, it is generally understood...

...dog is a digitigrade quadruped, having fixed claws, four toes, and a recurved tail. 43. Excise : a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged...of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. — Dr. Johnson. 44. Honesty is integrity, is probity, is fair-dealing ; or, is...

...dog is a digitigradc quadruped, having fixed claws, four tocs, and a recurved tail. 43. Excise : a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretehes hired by those to whom the excise is paid. — Dr. Johnson. 44. Honesty is integrity, is probity,...

...intersections. 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 of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. This defininon of the word Excise gave great offence...

...318. This was the gist of Dr. Johnson'sfamous diatribe in his Dictionary: "excise, — a hateful tax adjudged not by the common judges of property, but...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." By statute, 23 Henry VIII, c. 5 (3 Statutes of the Realm, 368), commissioners of sewers were given...

...celebrated definition in 1755 of an excise 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." Marvell, in 1667, wrote of the excise : " With hundred rows of teeth, the shark exceeds, and on all...

...of his fellow countrymen, Dr. Samuel Johnson, in his famed Dictionary, defined the excise tax 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." The frontiersmen of western Pennsylvania and elsewhere...

...Johnson's most famous statement against excise is, of course, its definition in his Dictionary: "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." Johnson mentions Davenant briefly in his preface to...

...attracted the wrath of Samuel Johnson, whose dictionary defined excise as « a hateful tax levided upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ». Taxation in its various forms has remained a matter...

...taxes on life's necessities. In 1755, Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary had defined the excise as "a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by the common judges of property but wretches hired by those to whom it is paid." These wretches were the excise men who were permitted...