| Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 880 pàgines
...dying Englishman pours his medicine, which has pud seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. ; flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. ; makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 828 pàgines
...The dying Englishman pours his medicine, which smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light, and locomo- has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 percent; tion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters un- flings himself back upon his chintz... | |
| Thomas Hart Benton - 1856 - 808 pàgines
...dying Englishman pours his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. ; flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. ; makes his will on an eight-pound stamp. and expires in the arms of an apothecary,... | |
| Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1856 - 1016 pàgines
...The dying Englishman pours his medicine, wh smell, or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light, and locomo- has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 perce tion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters un- flings himself back upon his chintz bed,... | |
| George Francis Train - 1857 - 428 pàgines
...pay. The school-boy whips bis taxed top — the beardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road: — and the dying Englishman,...expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1857 - 800 pàgines
...schoolhoy whips his taxed top — the heardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed hridle, on a taxed road : — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. — flings himself hack upon his chintz... | |
| Horace Smith - 1859 - 282 pàgines
...pay. 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,...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent.,—and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the... | |
| Sydney Smith - 1859 - 386 pàgines
...— The schoolboy whips his taxed top — Ute beardless ywth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, on a taxed road : — and the dying Englishman,...medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that krts paid 15 per cent, —ßings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent. —... | |
| Henry Charles Carey - 1859 - 528 pàgines
...as he further said, "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 seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon the chintz bed... | |
| 1859 - 830 pàgines
...schoolboy whips his taxed top ; the !,eardless youth manages his taxed horse, with a taxed bridle, upon a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven percent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per-cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed... | |
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