 | Robert Jones, Thomas Powel - Wales - 1877 - 638 pages
...peculiar one still is given under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " 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". " This", says Dr. Latham,... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 368 pages
...peculiar one still is given under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition: " 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". " This", says Dr. Latham,... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 248 pages
...peculiar one still is given under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " 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". " This", says Dr. Latham,... | |
 | Wales - 1877 - 378 pages
...peculiar one still is given under the word ' pension', of which we have the following definition : " 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". " This", says Dr. Latham,... | |
 | 1878 - 496 pages
...offered the bounty of three hundred a year. He had, in his Dictionary, defined the word " pension" thus : "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." This definition was now... | |
 | Edward Tuckerman Mason - 1879 - 348 pages
...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. In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country. "Pensioner. A slave of... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1880 - 344 pages
...reasoning. 20. Logic is the light-house of the understanding (pharus intelhctus). 21. A pension is 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. — Dr. Johnson. 22. Green... | |
 | Charles Churchill - 1880 - 740 pages
...reprehension of McGregor, alias Malloch, alias Mullet, as contemptible a poet as a man.) 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 — One who... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English literature - 1880 - 182 pages
...by the common judges of property, but by wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid.' Pension is '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, it will be remembered,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - American periodicals - 1882 - 920 pages
...and the apostolic hierarchy of England : opposed to a Whig. " Whig, the 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... | |
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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}. 
