...terms for his next edition, which he did not live to superintend. BURNEY.] 5 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...

...STOCK-JOBBER. A low wretch, who gets money by buying and selling Shares in the Funds. *• 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 : — Example, " ' Can hire large houses, and oppress...

...across this passage. The same author, in his Dictionary, gave us this definition of excise : — " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common, judges or property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." He also describes a commissioner...

...STOCK-JOBBER. A low wretch, who gets money by buying and celling Shares in the Funds. '• 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 : — Example, " ' Can hire large houses, and oppress...

...explained, as his tory, whig, pension, oats, excise*, and a few more, ' 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...

...praise of perfection, which if I coula obtain in this gloom of solitude, t He thus defines Excise — " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common juogee of property, but wretches hired by those to whom Excise is paid." The Commissioners of ExcUe...

...For example, ' Excise,' which — as a Tory hating Walpole and the Whig excise act — he delines, hanged for usi-less ore ? Seen all her triumphs but destruction haste, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' to a state-hireling for treason to his country.'...

...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...

...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but i in Scotland supports the people"] . EXCISE [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 ']. 1 The Commissioners of Excise being offended...

...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...