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
| David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 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,... | |
| Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...pouring his medicine, which has paid ^ per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent. —...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... | |
| Robert Mackenzie - Europe - 1880 - 476 pages
...which 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 one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
| Robert Mackenzie - History, Modern - 1880 - 496 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine which has paid seven per cent. into a spoon which 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 one hundred... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1881 - 892 pages
...that has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chint2 bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent, and expires in the arms of an apothecary...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. Review ofSeyberfs Annals of the United States (1820). 1 Compare Dryden, ante, p. 240. In the four quarters... | |
| Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage - Women - 1881 - 1018 pages
...himf-.lf back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms uf an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of polling him to death. His whole property is then taxed from two to ten per cent. Betides the probate,... | |
| Robert Mackenzie - History, Modern - 1881 - 486 pages
...paid fifteen per cent., Ilin^s himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two percent., 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... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 430 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 bed...an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pound.' for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from... | |
| Robert Ellis Thompson - Economics - 1882 - 442 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 bed...expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid & license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
| Quotations, English - 1882 - 1434 pages
...flings himself back on his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the anus of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting Mm to death. i- SIDNEY SMITH — Review of Seyberfs Annals. United States. 01 can he rule the great... | |
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