| Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 496 páginas
...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 páginas
...drop, and Johnson never made the slightest alteration on the obnoxious passage. "Pension" is defined, " 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" But if the next had got in it would have beat all the rest... | |
| 1874 - 414 páginas
...property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." "Lexicographer, a harmless drudge." "Pension an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....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 - 1875 - 674 páginas
...the palm. 'Yes,' said he, 'and where will you find such horses and such men?' 'Pension' is defined: ' An allowance made to any one without an equivalent...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... | |
| Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 páginas
...nature. Indignant at the prevalent corruption, he had defined a " pension " in his Dictionary as " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....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... | |
| 1876 - 28 páginas
...Pensioner." They will find the definition to be this : — "Pension — ATI allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally...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 great Doctor... | |
| 1876 - 458 páginas
...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... | |
| Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - 1877 - 638 páginas
...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... | |
| 1877 - 378 páginas
...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... | |
| 1877 - 248 páginas
...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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