 | Charles Tomlinson - 1887 - 204 pages
...pension, and a pension is "an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent." And " in England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country," while a pensioner is "a slave of State hired by a stipend to obey his master !" And yet Dr. Johnson... | |
 | 1888 - 536 pages
...The art of road-making. 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. — Johnson. ( 81 ) istic defiance of Mrs. Grundy, he accepted a pension of ^300 per annum as a " reward... | |
 | Samuel Johnson - 1888 - 502 pages
...of Johnson, iii. 27. 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. Dictionary. Penuriousness : ' TALKING of a penurious gentleman of our acquaintance, Johnson said, "... | |
 | Sir William Henry Gregory - 1888 - 170 pages
...defined the word Pension as " an allowance made to anyone without an equivalent ; in England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," he must have been a different man from t See Walpole's Letters. 93 the Samuel Johnson who willingly... | |
 | James Boswell - 1889 - 574 pages
...name of 'a faction], " 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]. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain which in England... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1889 - 442 pages
...pension is: "An allowance made to any one withont an eqnivalent. ln England it is generally nnderstood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his conntry." And one definition of a pensioner is : "A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master."... | |
 | Elizabeth Stansbury Kirkland - 1892 - 482 pages
...who live on public bounty. "Pension: An allowance 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." * Mrs. Richardson says: The Johnsonian style is in pompous and long-syllabled words, many of them words... | |
 | Daniel Cady Eaton - 1893 - 106 pages
...of the year 1893 : " Pension—An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Pensioner—A slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master." The facT; that Johnson himself... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 656 pages
...the time, suggested some difficulty. Johnson had unluckily spoken of a pension in hia Dictionary as "generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country." He was assured, however, that he did not come within the definition ; and that the reward was given... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 pages
...received a pension of three hundred pounds a year. In his " Dictionary " he had defined a pension as " generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Being assured that he did not come within the definition, and that the pension was accorded in recognition... | |
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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']. 
