...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,...

...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,...

...treason to his country]. " PENSIONER [a slave of ríate hired by a stipend to obey his master], ** our hundred and thirty-eight verses. Goldsmith, in the couplet which he inserted 2 , mentions Luke " EXCISE [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,...

...Dr. Johuson'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,...

...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...

...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,...

...his 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,...

...known that in the first edition of his Dictionary there was a description as follows appended to the article OATS : " A grain which in England is generally...given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." CHAP. English statesmen were less intent on Legislative than -_XJ — . on Ministerial changes. The...

...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...