 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 570 頁
...He had formerly put in his Dictionary the following def,nition of the word pension : ' Pension — an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country. ' This drew of course afterwards all the sarcasms of his... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 564 頁
...He had formerly put in his Dictionary the following definition of the word pension : ' Pension — an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' This drew of course afterwards all the sarcasms of his... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 586 頁
...He had formerly put in his Dictionary the following definition of the word pension : ' Pension—an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' This drew of course afterwards all the sarcasms of his... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - 1872 - 552 頁
...Anglians or English. 51. pensions. In his Diet., published 1755, Johnson's definition of a pension is: "An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." And one definition of a pensioner is : "A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." It was... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1872 - 740 頁
...and in another, "pension," as "an allowance made to any one without an equivalent, in England, being generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country," and " pensioner—a slave of state, hired by a stipend to obey his master," definitions which were... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1873 - 496 頁
...définition suivante du mot pension : "An allowancetnade to any one without an équivalent. In En gland it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Le lecteur voit d'ici les sarcasmes des adversaires. les gronderies de quatre femmes et d'un vieux... | |
 | ALEXANDER MAIN - 1874 - 484 頁
...drop, and Johnson never made the slightest alteration on the obnoxious passage. "Pension" is defined, " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country" But if the next had got in it would have beat all the rest... | |
 | 1874 - 414 頁
...property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." "Lexicographer, a harmless drudge." "Pension an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....England it is generally understood to mean pay given to state hireling for tre,ason to hie country." " Pensioner, a slave of elate hired by a stipend to obey... | |
 | James Mason - 1875 - 674 頁
...the palm. 'Yes,' said he, 'and where will you find such horses and such men?' 'Pension' is defined: ' An allowance made to any one without an equivalent...it is generally understood to mean pay given to a statehjreling for treason to his country.' But if the next had got in, it would have beat all the rest... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 頁
...nature. Indignant at the prevalent corruption, he had defined a " pension " in his Dictionary as " an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." And he had defined " Pensioner" as "a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master." But to... | |
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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']. 
