 | Charles Mackay - Ballads, English - 1863 - 344 pages
...hundred years later shared all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary defined it to be "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." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1866 - 336 pages
...the 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. «e* With the same zeal as of a saint ; sso Could... | |
 | 1871 - 838 pages
...the first edition of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary testifies, in which, under the word Excise, he says, ," 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." To the Jews, the 32* TRADES AND INDUSTRIAL OCCUPATIONS... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...such men ? " ///-nature also found vent in some of the definitions. " Excise " is thus defined : " 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 was a staunch Tory, and hated, of course,... | |
 | William Trant - Finance - 1874 - 234 pages
...has been odious to the people of England ; " and which is very accurately defined by Dr. Johnson as " 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." Class legislation, which stares out from almost... | |
 | James Boswell - 1874 - 602 pages
...after telling Cor. et Ad.— Line 28 : On Excise, put the following note : 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... | |
 | William Garrett Lewis - Bible - 1874 - 304 pages
...Johnson's Dictionary testifies, where, under the word excise, he gives the following definition : " 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." To the Jews, the degradation of the publican was... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...Under the title ' Excise ' are the following words : — ' EXCISE, ns (accijs, Dutch : excisum, Latin), a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but -wrcUhti hired by those to whom Exist is paid. ' " The people should pay a rateable tax for their... | |
 | THOMAS ARNOLD - 1876 - 312 pages
...well-known definition of ' Excise,' in the first edition of his Dictionary, illustrates this aversion : ' 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.' L. 117. Sappho : See note to Ep. II. 24. I.. 119.... | |
 | John Owens - Internal revenue - 1879 - 582 pages
...Under the title ' Excise ' are the following words : — Excise, ns accijis, Dutch ; exrisum, Latin ; a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but ,wretches hired by those to whom the Excise is paid." " The author's definition being observed... | |
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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. 
