| Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...paused, and felt some ' compunctious visitings' before he accepted a pension himself! Oats he defines, ' isease ; Yet, merciful in chastening, gave thee scope For mild redeeming virtues, faith and This gave mortal offence to the natives of Scotland, and is hardly yet forgiven ; but the best reply... | |
| James Boswell - Authors, English - 1848 - 1798 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]. " EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property,... | |
| Medicine - 1853 - 466 pages
...the same category. The inconveniences arising from the use of maize, lentils, peas, rye, and that " grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people" (Johnson), chestnuts, almonds. &c., are due, according to our author, to the great demand they make... | |
| Robert Armitage - Authors, English - 1850 - 476 pages
...Then, sir, old Mr. Sheridan has found out a very good reason." Johnson's definition of OATS was, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses,...but in Scotland supports the people." Lord Elibank made a happy retort on this; "Yes," said he, "and where else will you see such horses and such men... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...paused, and felt some ' compunctious visitings' before h: accepted a pension himself 1 Oats he defines, ' n and silent shore, Shall we not meet, as heretofore, This gave mortal offence to the natives of Scotland, and is hardly yet forgiven ; but the best reply... | |
| Medicine - 1853 - 614 pages
...the same category. The inconveniences arising from the use of maize, lentils, peas, rye, and that " grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people" (Johnson), chesnuts, almonds, &e , are due, according to our author, to the great demand they make... | |
| Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 378 pages
...usually applied to wretches who were hired to vindicate the court. (Omitted in the recent editions of the Dictionary.) Oats — A grain which in England is...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... | |
| American literature - 1854 - 704 pages
...adhered to with a pertinacity worthy of a worthy cause; accordingly we have some curious definitions: "OATS. A grain which, in England, is generally given...to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people." " WHIG. The name of a faction." " PENSION. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England,... | |
| 1854 - 768 pages
...adhered to with a pertinacity worthy of a worthy cause; accordingly we have some curious definitions: " OATS. A grain which, in England, is generally given...to horses, but in Scotland, supports the people." " WHIG. The name of a faction." " PENSION. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent In England,... | |
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