 | Elizabeth Washington Wirt - 1832 - 338 pagina’s
...for men." [See Skinner.] So that Doctor Johnson's offensive definition of Oata: " A grain which, \a England, is generally given to horses; but, in Scotland, supports the people," — is only a specific appropriation of what Skinner had left general; and is, therefore, not quite... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 378 pagina’s
...treason to hit 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,... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 604 pagina’s
...for treason to his country]. PENSIONER [a slave of slate hired by a stipend to obey his master]. OATS JOHNSON TO MISS LUCY PORTER. "12th of July, 1763. " Mr DEAREST LOVE, — I had forMss""1 ?ot EXCISE [a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property, but... | |
 | James Boswell - 1835 - 460 pagina’s
...vent to his hatred against the Scots. Even in his Dictionary we find the following article : " OATS, a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.'' Not recollecting his edition of Shakspeare, which was so far from answering the expectations of the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1836 - 656 pagina’s
...vent to his hatred against the Scots. Even in his Dictionary we find the following article : " OATS, a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Not recollecting his edition of Shakspeare, which was so far from answering the expectations of the... | |
 | Joseph Robertson - 1840 - 286 pagina’s
...other, " the men here eat all the horses' bread ;" meaning, of our oatbread which the commons use.1 14. Doctor Ferine preached in the reigns of Ed1 Dr...' oats,' the food of horses, were so much used as the food of the people in Dr Johnson's own town of Litchfield." — Croker's Boswell, vol. iii. p.... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 546 pagina’s
...vent to his hatred against the Scots. Even in his Dictionary we find the following article: " OATS, a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Not recollecting his edition of Shakspeare, which was so far from answering the expectations of the... | |
 | John Wilson Croker - 1842 - 544 pagina’s
...vent to his hatred against the Scots. Even in his Dictionary we find the following article: " OATS, a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Not recollecting his edition of Shakspeare, which was so far from answering the expectations of the... | |
 | John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell - 1878 - 430 pagina’s
...was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees." — Psalm Ixxiv, 5. J " OATS, ns A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." — Johnson's Dictionary. Of course this was " meant sarkastic " by the great lexicographer, but Scotsmen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pagina’s
...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... | |
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OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker. 
