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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']. "
Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson - Page 358
by Henry Reed - 1855 - 2 pages
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The father of a fashion

1876 - 28 pages
...Pensioner." They will find the definition to be this : — "Pension — ATI allowance made to anyone 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." Such was the opinion of the...
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Republic: A Monthly Magazine, Devoted to the Dissemination of ..., Volume 7

1876 - 458 pages
...while laboring in poverty and comparative ob•curity upon his Dictionary, in it denned a pension as "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean p«y given to a State hireling for treason to his country;" mnd a pensioner as "a slave of State hired...
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Y Cymmrodor, Embodying the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Societ Y of London

1877 - 378 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...
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Y Cymmrodor, Volume 1

1877 - 248 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...
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Y Cymmrodor, Embodying the Transactions of the Cymmrodorion Societ Y of London

1877 - 368 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...
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Y Cymmrodor: Embodying the Transactions of the Honourable ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - 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...
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New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register, Volume 152

1878 - 496 pages
...offered the bounty of three hundred a year. He had, in his Dictionary, defined the word " pension" thus : "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent;...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...
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Geschichte der englischen Literatur: Bd. Das klassische Zeitalter, bearb ...

Hippolyte Taine - 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...
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Samuel Johnson, His Words and His Ways, what He Said, what He Did, and what ...

Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...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 equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country. "Pensioner. A slave of state, hired by a stipend to ohey his master. "Oats. A grain which in England...
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Taalstudie, Volumes 1-2

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...
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