...nostrils. 42. A dog is a digitigrade quadruped, having fixed claws, four toes, and a recurved tail. 43. Excise : a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and...of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. — Dr. Johnson. 44. Honesty is integrity, is probity, is fair-dealing ; or, is...

...nostrils. 42. A dog is a digitigradc quadruped, having fixed claws, four tocs, and a recurved tail. 43. Excise : a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretehes hired by those to whom the excise is paid. — Dr. Johnson. 44. Honesty is integrity, is probity,...

...interstices between the intersections. Cough — A convulsion of the lungs vellicated by some sharp serosity. Excise — A hateful tax levied upon commodities,...adjudged not by the common judges of property; but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. This defininon of the word Excise gave great offence...

...land supports the people]. " EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by iht common judges of property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise it paid].'"' i The commissioners of excise being offended by this severe reflection, consulted Mr....

...318. This was the gist of Dr. Johnson'sfamous diatribe in his Dictionary: "excise, — a hateful tax adjudged not by the common judges of property, but...by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." By statute, 23 Henry VIII, c. 5 (3 Statutes of the Realm, 368), commissioners of sewers were given...

...celebrated definition in 1755 of an excise as " a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by common judges of property but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Marvell, in 1667, wrote of the excise : " With hundred rows of teeth, the shark exceeds, and on all...

...300. Johnson's most famous statement against excise is, of course, its definition in his Dictionary: "A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Johnson mentions Davenant briefly in his preface to...

...attracted the wrath of Samuel Johnson, whose dictionary defined excise as « a hateful tax levided upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid ». Taxation in its various forms has remained a matter...

...taxes on life's necessities. In 1755, Samuel Johnson's famous dictionary had defined the excise as "a hateful tax levied upon commodities and adjudged not by the common judges of property but wretches hired by those to whom it is paid." These wretches were the excise men who were permitted...

...justifiably resemble the treatment of other secondhand goods. 26See supra sec. IV(C). 8 Excises Ben JM Terra Excise — A hateful tax levied upon commodities,...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. — Samuel Johnson I. Introduction A. Nature of Excise...