 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 pages
...Dictionary the following def,nition of the word pension : ' 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. ' This drew of course afterwards all the sarcasms of his... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 pages
...pensions. In his Diet., published 1755, Johnson's definition of a pension is: "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally...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... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - Biography - 1872 - 740 pages
...and in another, "pension," as "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent, in England, being generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," and " pensioner—a slave of state, hired by a stipend to obey his master," definitions which were... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1873 - 496 pages
...définition suivante du mot pension : "An allowancetnade to any one without an équivalent. In En gland it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Le lecteur voit d'ici les sarcasmes des adversaires. les gronderies de quatre femmes et d'un vieux... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 pages
...slightest alteration on the obnoxious passage. "Pension" is defined, " 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" But if the next had got in it would have beat all the rest... | |
 | American literature - 1874 - 414 pages
...to whom excise is paid." "Lexicographer, a harmless drudge." "Pension an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to state hireling for tre,ason to hie country." " Pensioner, a slave of elate hired by a stipend to obey... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...where will you find such horses and such men?' 'Pension' is defined: ' An allowance made to any one without an equivalent In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a statehjreling for treason to his country.' But if the next had got in, it would have beat all the rest... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Dilke - Authors, English - 1875 - 430 pages
...strength of that pension, he descended into the dirty arena of party politics. If " pension " meant " pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country " when Johnson wrote and published his Dictionary, — surely simple men might ask what it meant after he had become a pensioner,... | |
 | 1876 - 28 pages
...words " Pension " and " Pensioner." They will find the definition to be this : — "Pension — ATI allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." " Pensioner — A slave of state, hired by a stipend to obey his master." Such was the opinion of the... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...prevalent corruption, he had defined a " pension " in his Dictionary as " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England, it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." And he had defined " Pensioner" as "a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master." But to... | |
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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']. 
