 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 428 страници
...Johnson defines " Excise," to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, nob by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to...with a spiteful demonstration in geometry.* To an ear accustomed to simple English, simple in the choice and in the arrangement of the words, the highly... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 страници
...defines " Excise," to be (( a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a statehireling for treason to his country" — a comic effect is produced by the unexpected encounter... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 242 страници
...Johnson defines " Excise," to be "a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country" — a comic effect is produced by the unexpected encounter... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - 1858 - 792 страници
...Permit me again to draw the attention of tho committee to this memorable definition. " Pension — an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a State hireling for treason to his country." Sir, I will drop the latter part of this definition, where tho feelings of tho partisan appear to have... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 страници
...hierarchy of the Church of England: opposed to a Whig]. " WHIG [the name of a faction]. "PENSION [are allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a slate hireling for treason to his country], " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 страници
...apostolic hierarchy of the Church of England: opposed to a Whig\. " WHIG [the name of a faction]. "PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....to a state hireling for treason to his country']. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 страници
...apostolic hierarchy of the church of England : opposed to a Whig}. "WHIG [the name of a faction], " PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a »tote hireling for treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of ríate hired by a stipend to obey... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 страници
...apostolic hierarchy of the church of England : opposed to a Whig]. "WHIG [the name of a faction]. " PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it « generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country"*. *' PENSIONER... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 502 страници
...stipend to obey his master." She was thinking of Johnson's definition of Pension, of which he says : " In England it is generally understood to mean pay...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Etruscan jars, for example, given me by a monsignore, Ennio Visconte, a Milanese nobleman then resident... | |
 | Hester Lynch Piozzi - 1861 - 496 страници
...stipend to obey his master." She was thinking of Johnson's definition of Pensiim, of which he says : " In England it is generally understood to mean pay...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Etruscan jars, for example, given me by a monsignore, Ennio Visconte, a Milanese nobleman then resident... | |
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PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country']. 
