 | John Wesley Hales - Authors, English - 1884 - 564 pages
...AngHans or English. 51. pensions. In his Diet., published 1755, Johnson's definition of a pension is : " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." And one definition of a pensioner is : "A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." It was... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 612 pages
...Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." "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." ^•^H JOHNSONIAN AGE. 45 "Tory:... | |
 | Maude Gillette Phillips - English literature - 1885 - 648 pages
...Anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." "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." " Tory: A cant term derived, I... | |
 | Thomas Hay Sweet Escott - Journalism - 1911 - 384 pages
...Whig ; the name of a faction. Pension ; an allowance made to anyone without equivalent, and in England generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason against his country. Pensioner ; a slave of State, hired by a stipend to obey his master. Oats ; a... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1925 - 956 pages
...more essential because we are far removed from the days when Dr. Johnson said that a pension was ' generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country,' a definition which caused him some discomfort when he himself came to be a pensioner. In recent years... | |
 | English periodicals - 1925 - 1028 pages
...more essential because we are far removed from the days when Dr. Johnson said that a pension was ' generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country,' a definition which caused him some discomfort when he himself came to be a pensioner. In recent years... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1918 - 432 pages
...of a pension as “pay given to a state hireling to betray his country.” Johnson's definition is: “An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....to a state hireling for treason to his country.” JOHN WILLc0cK, Jun. Lerwick. Prof. Montague in his edition of the ‘Essays' has exposed an astonishing... | |
 | Frank Brady, William Wimsatt - Literary Criticism - 1978 - 655 pages
...stood in his Dictionary. “Pension: An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In English it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country.” One of Johnson's most recent friends was an indigent Irish writer who, after varied wanderings on the... | |
 | James Boswell - Biography & Autobiography - 1979 - 388 pages
...intersections'. 9. The definitions are Whig: "The name of a faction'. Pension: 'An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' Oats: 'A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.'... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1981 - 334 pages
...in Scotland supports the people.” He satirized contemporary politics when he described pension as “An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....to a state hireling for treason to his country.” Johnson specified the common word network as “Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances... | |
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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. 
