...and such men ? " ///-nature also found vent in some of the definitions. "Excise" \s thus defined : "A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged, not by the common judges of property, but wretehes hired by those to whom Excise is paid." Johnson was a staunch Tory, and hated, of course,...

...has been odious to the people of England ; " and which is very accurately defined by Dr. Johnson 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." Class legislation, which stares out from almost...

...Or thus : " Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge." " Oats " he defines as, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the J>cople." Our Scotch blood got up at this heinous insult; many replies were made, but the good-natured...

...Street.' Or thus: 'Lexicographer, a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge.' ' Oats ' he defines as ' a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' Scotch blood got up at this heinous insult ; many replies were made, but the good-natured retort of...

...remembered that Dr. Johnson, in order to manifest his dislike to Scotchmen, gave as a definition to the word oats, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people " ; but he had always thought that the old lexicographer had unwittingly testified to the superior...

...was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees."—Psalm Ixxiv, 5. J "OATS, ns A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people."—Johnson's Dictionary. Of course this was "meant sarkastic " by the great lexicographer,...

...hireling for treason to his country. "Pensioner. A slave of state, hired by a stipend to ohey 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 the excise is paid." Boswell had a talk with him about these definitions...

...expressing the general prejudice which long prevailed in England against this mode of collecting a revenue: "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." Excise wae a name formerly confined to th<- imposition...

...wretches who were hired to vindicate the court. (Omitted in the recent editions of the Dictionary.) Oats — A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Alias — A Latin word often used in the trials of criminals; as Mallett alias Malloch ; (in the later...

...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...adjudged not by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom the excise is paid. — Dr. Johnson. 44. Honesty is integrity, is...