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" : " 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. "
Blackwood's Magazine - Página 680
1927
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Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest ..., Volumen 2

Robert Chambers - 1849 - 760 páginas
...judges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' A pension is defined to be 'an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a statehireling for treason to hie country.' After such a definition, it is scarcely to be wondered that...
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Remarks Occasioned by the Present Crusade Against the Educational Plans of ...

Richard Dawes - 1850 - 72 páginas
...they will turn out, as a class, dangerous to society, is adopting Dr. Johnson's definition of the word pension—" an allowance made to any one without an...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Perhaps a recollection of this may have led to the opinion "that they are to be little rebels, but...
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Remarks Occasioned by the Present Crusade Against the Educational Plans of ...

Richard Dawes - 1850 - 72 páginas
...society, is adopting Dr. Johnson's definition of the word pension—" an allowance made to any oii& 'without an equivalent,"—" in England it is generally...mean, pay given to a state hireling for treason to 1 his country." Perhaps a recollection of this may have led to the opinion that they are to be little...
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Their Tour to the Hebrides

James Boswell, John Wilson Croker - 1851 - 940 páginas
...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]. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]....
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Putnam's Monthly, Volumen 3

1854 - 704 páginas
...as to the propriety of the author of such a sweeping attack upon pensioners becoming one himself. " PENSION. An allowance made to any One without an equivalent....to a state hireling, for treason to his country." The Dictionary sold well ; for a second folio edition was published within a year. This was a triumph...
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The Poetical Works of Charles Churchill: With Copious Notes and a ..., Volumen 2

Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1854 - 364 páginas
...reprehension of McGregor, alias Malloch, alias Mallet, as contemptible a poet as a man.) Pension—-An allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In...given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Pensioner—One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another ; a dependent. 349 We...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 416 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 statehireling for treason to his country"—a comic effect is produced by the unexpected encounter...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1855 - 404 páginas
...excise is paid :" and Pension, to be "an allow nnce made to any one without an equivalent. In Englam it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country"—a comic effect is pro duccd by the unexpected encounter with sucb a fervit temper among...
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Putnam's Monthly, Volumen 3

1854 - 706 páginas
...as to the propriety of the author of such a sweeping attack upon pensioners becoming one himself. " PENSION. An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....to a state hireling, for treason to his country." The Dictionary sold well ; for a second folio edition was published within a year. This was a triumph...
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Lectures on English Literature: From Chaucer to Tennyson

Henry Reed - 1858 - 424 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 statehireling for treason to his country"—a comic effect is produced by the unexpected encounter...
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