 | Ephraim Banks - Bank notes - 1838 - 436 pages
...cent—swallows it and leans back upon a chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent; makes his will upon an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid one hundred pounds for the privilege of pulling him to death—high charges are demanded for burying... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...has paid 15 per cent., — flings 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 an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Peace - 1842 - 224 pages
...into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent., makes his will on an eight pound stamp,...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twentytwo per cent....the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death, His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | William Bentley Fowle - Recitations - 1844 - 302 pages
...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.,...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... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1844 - 900 pages
...paid seven per cent. into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent. — • flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twentytwo per cent....the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...that has paid lo per cent. ¡flings 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 privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | United States - 1844 - 671 pages
...spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent , and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole properly is then immediately... | |
 | Philip Bury Duncan - Social psychology - 1844 - 128 pages
...himself on a chintz bed, for which he has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eightpenny stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid 1001. for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from three to ten... | |
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... for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble... 
