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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']. "
Representative Biographies of English Men of Letters - Página 454
editado por - 1909 - 642 páginas
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Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 648 páginas
...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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Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1799 - 640 páginas
...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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The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

Samuel Johnson - 1806 - 328 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 ..., Volúmenes1-3

1818 - 596 páginas
...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 páginas
...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, Volumen1

Thomas Williams (Calvinist preacher.) - 1820 - 402 páginas
...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...
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The London Magazine, Volumen8

1823 - 696 páginas
...he had done. The definition he had given of the word pension, in his dictionary, that in England it tt 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 ..., Volumen1

James Boswell - 1831 - 602 páginas
...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 Monthly Review

1831 - 652 páginas
...received one himself however,) " 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." His hatred of the Scotch breaks out in his definition of "oats," — " a grain which in England is...
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