...published ' A Dictionary of the English Language,' in which are the following words : " ' EXCISE, n. 8. 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.' " The author's definition being observed by the commissioners...

...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,...

...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,...

...prejudice against the excise is well known. In his Dictionary he baa gone so far as to defin.; it " 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." Murray (afterwards Lord Mansfield), then AttomeyGeneral,...

...Oats excite him to the following utterance, which he doubtless penned with sardonic satisfaction : " A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The dictionary of Johnson was received with favor. Some over-nice and captious critics discovered faults...

...Tory, may be regarded as representing the spirit of his party, when he defined the word " excise " as " 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." 4. A new ministry was formed, at the head of which...

...mantled with a kind of sardonic smile, as when in his great dictionary he solemnly defined oats to be a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. We certainly would set down nothing here in malice, or under the impulse of an unthinking prejudice,...

...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. «e* With the same zeal as of a saint ; sso Could prove...

...antipathy to the Scotch ; in his Dictionary, for instance, you will find the following : — " Oats — a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Forgetting his own edition of Shakespeare, which came so far short of the expectations of the critics,...

...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The private opinions of Noah Webster look out very plainly through the judicial gravity with which...