 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 pagina’s
...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 - 1885 - 492 pagina’s
...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 Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1134 pagina’s
...visitings' at his subsequent acceptance of one. He mortally offended the Scotch by defining oats to bo D o h{ / # ~ Q IjN N x [Q t$ g < _ v U 3 /n4A mR K )XS os kƺ0 LTE8 X= Lord Chesterfield, hoping to secure its dedication to himself, extolled it; but his favor, once sought... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pagina’s
...lexicogjaphic remark as follows : "Le Тле. dit petit A. a eu ce malheur" Dr. Johnson defines oats as "a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." A Puritan is "a sectary pretending to eminent purity of religion." A Whig is "the name of a laction,"... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1892 - 120 pagina’s
...the tragedy of Douglas, both with a pension and with a sinecure place. But, when the 1160. ** Oats, a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." — Johnson's Dictionary. 1184. " The Story of the Princess Parizade " in the " Arabian Nights' Entertainments."... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pagina’s
...signification of words." The second is suggestive of his irrepressible dislike of the Scotch : " Oats : A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." The third is an expression of contempt for those who live on public bounty. "Pension: An allowance... | |
 | 1894 - 490 pagina’s
...us, To see oorsels as it hers see us.' APROPOS of the great lexicographer's definition of oat-s as ' a grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people,' somebody (doubtless a patriotic Scot) is credited with the observation that while one country turned... | |
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OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people], — Croker. 
