 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 812 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two JKT cent. ; makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, 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... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 880 pages
...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, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1856 - 490 pages
...spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed. which Aos 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... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1824 - 872 pages
...which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon ' which has paid 15 per cent., makes his will on ' an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms of an ' apothecary, who has paid the license of an £100 • for the privilege of putting him to death. His ' whole property is then... | |
 | George Francis Train - Banks and banking - 1857 - 428 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 license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...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, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1859 - 542 pages
...himself back upon the 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, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds, for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 pages
...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, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Horace Smith - English wit and humor - 1859 - 282 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 a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1859 - 1360 pages
...his paid 1 5 per cent, —flings himself buck 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... | |
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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... 
