Taxes on articles of consumptionLongmans, Green, and Company, 1884 - Taxation |
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abolished additional duties alehouses Althorp amount annual license aqua vitae Baring's barrel Beerhouse beverage bottles brandy brewers brewing Britain British cent charged chicory cider classes coffee commenced commonwealth consequence considerable consumed continued corn cotton customs dealers distillation drink duty on beer duty on malt effect England exportation foreign France French brandy French wine Gladstone glass grain home consumption hops houses imperial gallon imported increase Ireland license duty licensed victuallers linen liquors lord malmsey malt manufacture metheglin Methuen treaty Nootka Sound number of licenses Peel Pitt Pitt's plate pound premises produce prohibited quantity raised the duty reduced the duty regulations reimposed repealed retail revenue sale of wine Scotland sell smuggling soap sorts Spencer Perceval spirits subsequently sugar sweets table beer tariff taverns tax imposed tax on beer termed tion tobacco trade United Kingdom Vansittart Vict yield
Popular passages
Page 252 - Bishop of Smyrna. He was the first I ever saw drink coffee; which custom came not into England till thirty years after...
Page 69 - Ye true honest Britons, who love your own land, Whose sires were so brave, so victorious, and free ; Who always beat France when they took her in hand — Come join, honest Britons, in chorus with me. Let us sing our own treasures, Old England's good cheer, The profits and pleasures of stout British beer ; Your wine-tippling, dram-sipping fellows retreat, But your beer-drinking Britons can never be beat ! " The French with their vineyards are meagre and pale, They drink of the squeezings of...
Page 336 - Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school : and whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the king, his crown and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
Page 303 - Another pretty thing was my Lady Ashly's speaking of the bad qualities of glass-coaches; among others, the flying open of the doors upon any great shake: but another was, that my Lady Peterborough being in her glass-coach with the glass up, and seeing a lady pass by in a coach whom she would salute, the glass was so clear that she thought it had been open, and so ran her head through the glass!
Page 353 - This is the day on which many eminent authors will probably publish their last words. I am afraid that few of our weekly historians, who are men that above all others delight in war, will be able to subsist under the weight of a stamp, and an approaching peace...
Page 145 - ... of victuals ; and not meant for entertainment and harbouring of lewd and idle people, to spend and consume their money and their time in lewd and drunken manner...
Page 386 - ... work, any sorts of tippings or swages on stone or ivory cases, any mounts, screws or stoppers to stone or glass bottles or phials, any small or slight ornaments put to amber or other eggs or urns, any wrought seals or seals with cornelian or other stones set therein, or any gold or silver vessel, plate or manufacture of gold or silver so richly engraved, carved or chased, or set with jewels or other stones as not to admit of an assay to be taken of or a mark to be...
Page 102 - An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch : Subjecting all their labour to their pots; The greatest artists are the greatest sots. The country poor do by example live; The gentry lead them, and the clergy drive: What may we not from such examples hope ? The landlord is their god, the priest their pope.
Page 169 - We had agreed by this treaty to take from France, on small duties, the luxuries of her soil, which, however, the refinements, of ourselves had converted into necessaries. The wines of France were already so much in the possession of our markets, that, with all the high duties paid by us, they found their way to our tables. Was it then a serious injury to admit these luxuries on easier terms ? The admission of them would not supplant the wines of Portugal, nor of Spain, but would supplant only an...
Page 353 - Medleys are jumbled together with the Flying Post ; the Examiner is deadly sick ; the Spectator keeps up, and doubles its price ; I know not how long it will hold.