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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']. "
Samuel Johnson - Page 51
by Sir Leslie Stephen - 1878 - 195 pages
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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 pages
...rendered Mrrcenarius. ^* " ' 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 is defined as ' One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another ; a dependant.'...
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 pages
...rendered Afercenarius. * ' 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 is defined as ' One who is supported by an allowance paid at the will of another ; a dependant.'...
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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 pages
...his Dictionary : 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. — 1. One who is suppoited by an allowance paid at the will of another, a dependent. 2....
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Le livre rouge; or, A new and extraordinary red-book containing a list of ...

Pierre Franc McCallum - 1810 - 174 pages
...looking over PIOOTT'S Political Dictionary, I find Pension thus defined by Johnson. — In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. Again, Pension.— This word hasbeen well defined by Addison, to be " an allowance made to any one...
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Tickler, Or, Monthly Compendium of Good Things, in Prose and ..., Volumes 1-3

1818 - 596 pages
...mon cherame, • Pension — An allowance made to any one without .'HI 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.— Johnsoirt Diet, t »nts...
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The Extraordinary Red Book: Containing a List of All Places, Pensions, and ...

Commoner - 1819 - 270 pages
...to obey his master ;" and the meaning given to " pension" is still stronger, — " In England it is generally understood to mean, pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." About thirty years ago, when the country was much burdened, it was enacted by parliament, " That 110...
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Memoirs of his late majesty George iii, Volume 1

Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) - 1820 - 402 pages
...definition of the term*, which * " Pension, an allowance to any one withoutequivalent. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." he certainly never would have done had he entertained the hope of a pension falling to his lot ; but the...
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The London Magazine, Volume 8

1823 - 696 pages
...had done. The definition he had given of the word pension, in his dictionary, that in England it was f qđ Ჷ L C k, w V L - %; / _8M_ | T,L ^3΅ p d PԦ H J O raised some further scruples whether he ought himself to become a pensioner; but they were -removed...
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The life of Samuel Johnson ... including A journal of a tour to ..., Volume 1

James Boswell - 1831 - 602 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}. QPKNSIONER, a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master}. OATS [a grain which in England...
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The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

James Boswell - 1831 - 604 pages
...\_the name of a faction}. PENSION \jm 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 Qa grain which in England...
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