 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - Wales - 1877 - 638 pages
...peculiar one still is given under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition: " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....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... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1877 - 420 pages
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 346 pages
...the apostolic hierarchy of the Church of England : opposed to a Whig. "Whig. The name of a faction. "Pension. An allowance made to any one without an...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... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' Pension is 'an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' Johnson, it will be remembered, had not yet been pensioned,... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1880 - 756 pages
...He had formerly put in his Dictionary the following definition of the word pension : "Pension—an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a statelirehng for treason to his country." This Irew of course afterwards all the sarcasms oí lis adversaries... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...reprehension of McGregor, alias Malloch, alias Mallet, as contemptible a poet as a man.) Pension—An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay Riven to a state hireling for treason to his country. Pensioner—One who is supported by an allowance... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1881 - 506 pages
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1881 - 482 pages
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Pensioner ia defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1881 - 468 pages
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes... | |
 | Noah Porter - Books and reading - 1881 - 468 pages
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." Pension, he says, is "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes... | |
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: " 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. 
