 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 páginas
...the state, and the apostolic hierarchy of England : opposed to a Whig. " Whig, the name of a faction. "Pension, an allowance made to any one without an...hireling for treason to his country. " Pensioner, a slave of state, hired by "a stipend to obey his master. " Excise, a hateful tax levied upon commodities,... | |
 | Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 páginas
...common judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid :" and Pension to be "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," — a comic effect is produced by the unexpected encounter... | |
 | 1925 - 1028 páginas
...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... | |
 | Shirley Morahan - 1981 - 334 páginas
...in Scotland supports the people." He satirized contemporary politics when he described pension as " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Johnson specified the common word network as "Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances... | |
 | Dieter Kastovsky, A. J. Szwedek, Barbara Płoczińska - 1986 - 784 páginas
...England is generally given to the horses, but in Scotland supports the people . . . PE'NSIONER. ns ... 1. One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another; a dependent ... 2. A slave of the state hired by a stipend to obey his master. What made and still makes such definitions... | |
 | E. P. Thompson - 1994 - 284 páginas
...system was a refuge for hirelings: indeed, Dr Johnson had defined in his dictionary a 'pension' as 'In England it is generally understood to mean pay...given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' David Erdman is undoubtedly right that the 'little blasts of fear' suggest the proclamations, the Paine-burnings... | |
 | J. C. D. Clark - 1994 - 292 páginas
...a pensioner has occasioned his Dictionary to be turn'd to in the Word Pension thus defined by him; 'an allowance made to any one without an Equivalent....it is generally understood to mean Pay given to a Statehireling for Treason to his Country.' l do not know, whether the Acceptance of his pension obliges... | |
 | Tyler Cowen - 1998 - 292 páginas
...the English government. Johnson's Dictionary had defined a pension as "An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." According to Boswell, Johnson defended his acceptance of the pension on the grounds that he had never... | |
 | Lawrence Lipking - 2009 - 396 páginas
...slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master" (a coda to the famous definition of "pension": "In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country").46 Johnson aligns himself 118 with the opposition. Academies are not only alien imports,... | |
 | Fanny Burney - 1999 - 1060 páginas
...because she is female. 880 a pension: defined by Johnson, before he received his own pension in I762, as 'an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country' (Distionary). State pensions were not, as Simkins supposes, awarded indiscriminately; after five years'... | |
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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']. 
