 | Manchester Literary Club - English literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...lexicographers. He frankly acknowledged that he meant to vex the Scotch by his rendering of the word "Oats : a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Boswell certainly scored one against him when he asked : " But where will you find such horses, and... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1884 - 742 pages
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. — Croker. He thus defines Excise : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the... | |
 | Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - American literature - 1884 - 536 pages
...emphasis, "commonly a wretch who supports with insolence and is paid with flattery." "Outs" he defines as "a grain which, in England, is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." "Pension, an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1885 - 492 pages
...years." In No. 40 also Wilkes quoted from " Pensioner Johnson, in his Dictionary" the definition of oats — "a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." No. 45, published on the 23rd of April, 1763, treated the king's speech at the opening of Parliament... | |
 | Alfred Waites - English language - 1886 - 92 pages
...Worterbiich der Deutschen Sprache. NINCOMPOOP. Not of sound mind. (Corr. of L. non compos mentis.) OATS. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but which in Scotland supports the people. J. OGRE. The Hungarian nation belongs to the Ouigour branch... | |
 | James Boswell - Hebrides (Scotland) - 1887 - 466 pages
...by their parts as their power.' The Government of the Tongue, sect. vii. See ante, \. 388, note 2. 3 'A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' Ante, i. 294. Stockdale records (Memoirs, ii. 191) that he heard a Scotch lady, after quoting this... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1887 - 652 pages
...by their parts as their power.' The Government of the Tongue, sect. vii. See ante, i. 388, note 2. 3 'A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' Ante, i. 294. Stockdale records (Afemotry, ii. 191) that he heard a Scotch lady, after quoting this... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...reticulated or decussated at equal distances with interstices between the intersections. — Johnson. Oats. A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. — Johnson. Pathology. The art of road-making. Pension. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent... | |
 | Samuel Johnson, George Birkbeck Norman Hill - 1888 - 356 pages
...natural consequence of narrow thoughts ; that it begins in mistake and ends in ignominy. Rambler, No. 4. Oats: A GRAIN which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Dictionary. Objections : OBJECTIONS crowd upon us without being sought, and instead of exercising our... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...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 to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker. He thus defines Excise : "A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the... | |
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OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker. 
