 | Statistical and social inquiry society of Ireland - 1856 - 428 페이지
...not be the same at home, if their labour were remunerated in the same manner ? Dr. Johnson defines "oats, a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland it supports the people." The bad food of the Scotchman was the effect of his low wages. The superior... | |
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - 1857 - 388 페이지
...blessing to Scotland. The Scotch can afford to disregard Johnson's somewhat sarcastic definition of oats, "a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Yes; and it supports them in comfort, health, and above all, in independence. Content with this simple... | |
 | Press - 1857 - 294 페이지
...excise scheme of Walpole were fresh in every one's recollection. He therefore defines the excise as " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Subsequently in the Idler (No. 65), he describes... | |
 | James Boswell - 1858 - 482 페이지
...for treason to his country], " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid]."1' 1 The commissioners of excise being offended... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 960 페이지
...treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of ríate hired by a stipend to obey his master], ** our hundred and thirty-eight verses. Goldsmith, in...superficial readers have passed it over quite smoothly by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid]." * I am more fortunate than Mr. Boswell, in being... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 496 페이지
...for treason to his country']. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by WRETCHES hired by those to whom excise is paid]:' 1 1 The commissioners of excise being offended... | |
 | James Boswell - 1860 - 950 페이지
...treason to his country"*. *' PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey hi* matter}. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people}. " EICISC [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property,... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 560 페이지
...Dr. Johuson's inveterate prejudice against the Scotch. In his dictionary the Doctor defines oats as " a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Bute was believed to be, by his personal influence, the evil genius of George III. and of England,... | |
 | John Wingate Thornton - 1860 - 556 페이지
...Dr. Johnson's inveterate prejudice against the Scotch. In his dictionary the Doctor defines oats as " a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Bute was believed to be, by his personal influence, the evil genius of George III. and of England,... | |
 | Charles Mackay - 1863 - 354 페이지
...hundred years later shared all the antipathy of his party to it, and in his Dictionary denned it to be " a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." From Irish rebels and Welsh hubbub-men, From Independents... | |
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OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. 
