Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1841-08-07

for the noun substantive, bdm6oo.ier Listen to
Johnson again:
"BAmBcozLER, tricking fellow; cheat
"There are set Of fellows they call banterers
and BAMBoozLERs, that play such tricks.
Auburthn0t
This is good authority, said Mr.. B. but it is no,
all. Richardson, more modern than Johnson, and
standard photographer, has redeemed and es,ab
lished the word in our language. He says the
meaning is to delude to mislead to cheat. to coz
en-. ~ deceive, to begue: and he gives several H.
Illustrations. some very suitable TO our times Thus
"Afer Mic had BAMBoozLED John awhile about
the $4,000 md the $4,000, John called for coun-
ters: but what with sleight of hand, and taking
from his own score and adding to that of Johns
Mic brought the balance always on his own side'
S,cif's His. Of John Bull.
"This whimsical phenomenon.
"Confounding all my pro and con,
"BAMBooZLEs the account again,
land draws me pOleBs vUens in"
King in Standing Block.
But, says |, sir, | perceive this is to you all
DAmBoozLiNc. Why you look as il you we're Don
Diego d To the tune of a thousand mounds"
Taller, No. 81.
The reading of these illustrations occa-
stoned much amusement in the Senate
but as they were spoken "for his consttu-
ents" it was perhaps but little difference
to "the Col" how contemptibly ignorant
he made them out to be, provided he could
thereby have an excuse to show off little
of the learning which he himself has
picked up from encyclopedias and news
papers-not learned as scholar-and he
accordingly broke out in another place as
follows:
ats name is fiscal; and what is fiscal, but be-
longing to the Treasury! 1t is from the latin adj
iectye fscalis. and signifies belonging to the treas.
ury. Fisc is Treasury from the latin noun fscus
The French say fs9qe for Treasury, from the
same noun. FiScus and fsca7ts are from the Greek
phaskoes and phdskdloS. The primitive meaning Of
the Greek is big basket, and belongiug to the big
basket, commonly called hanopar, or hamper bask-
ct. This is the primitive sense: the figurative or
metaphorical sense is. treasury, and belonging 10
the treasury; and the reason of this meta phorca!
sense is this that ancently governments collected
their taxes the priests did their tythes, and a.
many landlords now collect their rents, that is to
say, in kind. Thus when the wheat. barley, olives,
grapes, sc. were ripe the Government tax gather
ers entered the field with the owner, and gathered
the Government share, which was ALWAYS large
share. and required large baskets to receive it
Inc farmer nAd lille basket, ana Inc GoVern-
ment a big basket--a hanapar Or, our good
housewives call it, hamper which had handles
to it, and required several men to carry it. This
big basket received the tax fur the treasury: what
was put in it was put in the Treasury; and hence
bv an easy meta phor, the Treasury took the name
Of big basket. Thus we trace the word fiscal in
This bill. to the latin fScns and fsealis, and that
TO its Greek root phaskoes and phaskaloS and it all
comes to the same thing, that is to say, belonging
70 the Treasury"
Else, FIscus, FISCALIS-Fasque, PuAs-
KoEs PHASKALOS This is absolutely
worse than DR.. Redman, who stole up
wards of printed page from the Edin-
burgh Encyclopedia Gin the library at JEFF
ferson) last winter, worked it into his bank
report, and palmed it off on "the demo-
cracy," word for word, as his owni In
the name, therefore, of all the Greek and
latin derivatives of the great Phaskalos,
we go against "Humbuggers" "Bambozlers"
and in favour of the lone hour rule" for
speeches in the Senate as well as in the
House.