 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - Wales - 1877 - 638 pages
...under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country". " This", says Dr. Latham, " is Dr. Johnson's explanation ; one which is somewhat famous, partly from... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 248 pages
...under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country". " This", says Dr. Latham, " is Dr. Johnson's explanation ; one which is somewhat famous, partly from... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 368 pages
...under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition: " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country". " This", says Dr. Latham, " is Dr. Johnson's explanation; one which is somewhat famous, partly from... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 378 pages
...under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country". " This", says Dr. Latham, " is Dr. Johnson's explanation ; one which is somewhat famous, partly from... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...a year. He had, in his Dictionary, defined the word " pension" thus : "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent; in England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." This definition was now in his mind, and though^in great want of such support, he would not touch it... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1878 - 518 pages
...Sercunberer beS Contrat Social, füllen too^I íфneй, bafj fie тф1 me^r in ^гап!ге1ф finb. is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason of his country. llnb teaä muffen fie erft füllen, №etm fie iitïj barauf ben doctor folgenbermajjen... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...England : opposed to a Whig. "Whig. The name of a faction. " Pension. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country. "Pensioner. A slave of state, hired by a stipend to obey his master. "Oats. A grain which in England... | |
 | Philology, Modern - 1879 - 798 pages
...hired by a stipend to obey his master", and under Pension the Doctor says with Swift-like gravity: „In England it is generally understood to mean pay...given to a state hireling for treason to his country". The second exception to the general indifference of grammarians to the great questions of state is... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...alias Malloch, alias Mullet, as contemptible a poet as a man.) Pension — An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Pensioner — One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another; a dependent. 649 We... | |
 | James Boswell - Authors, English - 1880 - 488 pages
...[the name of a faction]. " PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In Engttmd it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country], " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS fa grain which in England... | |
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PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country']. 
