 | Calvin Colton - 1846 - 510 pàgines
...will on a stamp that has paid eight pounds, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from two to ten per cent. in probate, and large fees are demanded for burying him in a church.... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1847 - 524 pàgines
...medicine, which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent. —...him to death. His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 262 pàgines
...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 ia immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying... | |
 | George Cone Beckwith - 1847 - 264 pàgines
...back upon 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 license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is immediately... | |
 | Sydney Smith - 1848 - 556 pàgines
...medicine, which has paid 1 per cent, into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent. — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent. —...pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His tuliole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are... | |
 | Calvin Colton - 1848 - 556 pàgines
...eight pounds (sterling), and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid 100 pounds (sterling) for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from 2 to 10 per cent, in probate, and large fees are demanded for burying him in church. His... | |
 | Samuel Dunn - 1852 - 1074 pàgines
...that has paid fifteen per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which lias paid twenty-two per cent., and expires in the arms of an apothecary...of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 pàgines
...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, then, immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel;... | |
 | Thomas King Greenbank - 1849 - 446 pàgines
...back upon 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 an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | 1872 - 676 pàgines
...will, it asks all our sympathy for him, " expiring in the arms of an apothecary who has paid 100/. for the privilege of putting him to death." His whole property is then taxed, fees are paid for his burial, his virtues are recorded on taxed marble, " and he is then gathered... | |
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His whole property is then immediately taxed from 2 to 10 per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he is then gathered to his fathers — to... 
