 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...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 93by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Thomas John Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce Thurlow (5th baron) - India - 1866 - 248 pages
...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 licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Roses - Gift books - 1867 - 172 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine, 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. — and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1869 - 424 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne - 1869 - 926 pages
...spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Francis Fisher Broune - 1869 - 486 pages
...spoon that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine 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., makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1869 - 810 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine, 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., and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Antislavery movements - 1874 - 542 pages
...dying Englishman, pouring his medicine 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, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds... | |
 | Alexander Charles Ewald - 1870 - 248 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine, 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 — makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary... | |
 | William Dawbarn - Conduct of life - 1871 - 296 pages
...(that has paid fifteen per cent.) flings himself back on his chintz bed, (which has paid twenty -two per cent.) and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license fee of £100 for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed... | |
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