 | William Trant - Finance - 1874 - 234 pages
...board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring...medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid thirty per cent., throws himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two... | |
 | Ransom Hooker Gillet - New York (State) - 1874 - 1034 pages
...which has paid seven per cent, into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent; flings himself back upon a 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 £100 for the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...The school boy 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 chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
 | George Manville Fenn - Wit and humor - 1899 - 548 pages
...and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid seven per cent., into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon...per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, aud expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson - Business & Economics - 1875 - 430 pages
...schoolboy 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 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed which... | |
 | Federico Llaverías - Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) - 1925 - 544 pages
...The school boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; and the dying Englishman, pouring...that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back in his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two percent, makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Free enterprise - 1925 - 104 pages
...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 pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon which has paid 15 per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
 | Angus Whiteford Acworth - Finance - 1925 - 170 pages
...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, pouring his medicine which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., — flings himself upon his chintz bed which had... | |
 | Edward Potts Cheyney - History - 1927 - 200 pages
...nails of the coffin and the ribands of the bride. At bed or board, couchant or levant, we must pay. The dying Englishman pouring his medicine, which has...spoon that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who... | |
 | George Alexander Johnston - Citizenship - 1928 - 316 pages
...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 pouring his medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which... | |
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The school-boy 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. 
