 The school-boy whips his taxed top; the beardless youth manages his taxed horse with a taxed bridle on a taxed road ; — and the dying Englishman, pouring his medicine, which has paid...  The Works of Sydney Smith - Page 93by Sydney Smith - 1844 - 333 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1820 - 694 pages
...back on his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent. — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds, for ihe privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | 1820 - 590 pages
...himself back upon his chintz-bed which has paid 22 per cent. — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | English literature - 1818 - 596 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per ceut. makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1820 - 770 pages
...himself back upon his chintz-bed which has paid 22 per cent — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Anecdotes - 1820 - 442 pages
...back on his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent. — makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds, for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Samuel Putnam Waldo - History - 1822 - 408 pages
...Englishman, pouring his medicine which has pnid seven percent, into a spoon which has paid fifteen per cent, flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent.—makes his will on an 8/. stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid 1001.... | |
 | Franklin James Didier - England - 1822 - 218 pages
...himself back upon bis chintz hed which has paid 22 per cent. — makes his will upon an Sd. stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license uf I (MM. for the privilege of putting him to death !! ED. REV. 1820. der the tyranny of an absent... | |
 | William Mathers - Political science - 1831 - 214 pages
...twenty-two per ccnk,makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary,-who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death, his whole property is immediately taxed, from two to nineteen per cent. Beside, the probate, large fees are demanded for... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - Elocution - 1831 - 356 pages
...himself back upon his chintzbed which has paid 22 per cent.—makes his will on an eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Geography - 1832 - 1028 pages
...road. Tbe dying Englishman pours his medicine which has paid 7 per cent, into a spoon that has pwl 15 per cent; flings himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent; makes his will on in eight pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid * license... | |
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