| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...judges of property, hut wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be ere many meet ! The snow statehireling for treason to his country.' After such a definition, it is scarcely to be wondered that... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 772 páginas
...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be ho worldx p n, I know, is but a worm, yet methin p ...allied to God !' It would hȟp ف H 8 statchireling for treason to his country.' After such a definition, it is scarcely to be wondered that... | |
| 1846 - 590 páginas
...almshouse. Under this view of the case, unless we accept Dr. Samuel Johnson's definition of a pension, viz., "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country:"—Under this view of the subject, it is questionable whether commissioned officers while... | |
| Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 436 páginas
...had done. The definition he had given of the word pension, in his dictionary, that in England it was generally understood to mean pay, given to a state hireling, for treason to his country, raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner ; but they were removed... | |
| Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 564 páginas
...had done. The definition he had given of the word pension, in his dictionary, that in England it was generally understood to mean pay, given to a state hireling, for treason to his country, raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner ; but they were removed... | |
| Henry Francis Cary - 1846 - 462 páginas
...had done. The definition he had given of the word pension, in his dictionary, that in England it was generally understood to mean pay, given to a state hireling, for treason to his country, raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner; but they were removed... | |
| George Harris - 1847 - 620 páginas
...pensioner has occasioned his dictionary to be consulted on the word pension, which is thus defined— ' An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' I do not know whether the acceptance of his pension obliges him to any oath to the government. If he... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 754 páginas
...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be ' y statehireling for treason to his country.' After such a definition, it is scarcely to be wondered that... | |
| James Boswell - 1848 - 1798 páginas
...apostolic hierarchy of the church of England : opposed to a mio]. " WHIG [Me name of a faction], " PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally undt-r~ stood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country], " OATS [a grain tchich... | |
| James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1849 - 468 páginas
...become the instruments of their own retribution. JOHNSON, in his Dictionary, had thus defined the word pension: ' An allowance made to any one without an...given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' And a pensioner, he had described as ' A slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master.' These... | |
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