 His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten 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...  Stone & Webster Journal - Page 1651919Full view - About this book
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 968 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent. — making his will on :m 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 ii then immediately... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - International law - 1836 - 470 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... | |
 | Samuel Putnam - Readers - 1836 - 226 pages
...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 then immediately... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Elocution - 1836 - 534 pages
...upon his chintz bed which has paid twentytwo 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... | |
 | Robert Aspland - 1840 - 844 pages
...a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent. — 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... | |
 | Christianity - 1855 - 534 pages
...into a spoon that has paid 15 per cent., flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., 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 immediately... | |
 | Thomas Cogswell Upham - Peace - 1842 - 226 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 a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then immediately... | |
 | 1843 - 818 pages
...paid seven per cent., into a spoon that has paid fifteen per cent — flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent — and expires in the arms of his apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death.... | |
 | John Epy Lovell - Readers - 1843 - 524 pages
...upon his chintz bed which has paid twentytwo 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... | |
 | Sydney Smith - English literature - 1844 - 348 pages
...into a spoon that has paid lo per cent. ¡flings himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid 22 per cent., — 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... | |
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