...grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people. Pension: An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given, to a state hireling for treason to his country. Macaulay says : " Johnson's Dictionary was indeed the first dictionary which could be read with pleasure....

...but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid." " Lexicographer, a harmless drudge." " Pensions, an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." " Pensioner, a slave of state hired bv a stipend to obey his master," etc., etc. 313 . The Rambler....

...more essential because we are far removed from the days when Dr. Johnson said that a pension was ' generally understood to mean pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country,' a definition which caused him some discomfort when he himself came to be a pensioner. In recent years...

...in Scotland supports the people." He satirized contemporary politics when he described pension as " An allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country." Johnson specified the common word network as "Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances...

...system was a refuge for hirelings: indeed, Dr Johnson had defined in his dictionary a 'pension' as 'In England it is generally understood to mean pay...given to a state hireling for treason to his country.' David Erdman is undoubtedly right that the 'little blasts of fear' suggest the proclamations, the Paine-burnings...

...a pensioner has occasioned his Dictionary to be turn'd to in the Word Pension thus defined by him; 'an allowance made to any one without an Equivalent....it is generally understood to mean Pay given to a Statehireling for Treason to his Country.' l do not know, whether the Acceptance of his pension obliges...

...the English government. Johnson's Dictionary had defined a pension as "An allowance made to anyone without an equivalent. In England it is generally...given to a state hireling for treason to his country." According to Boswell, Johnson defended his acceptance of the pension on the grounds that he had never...

...slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master" (a coda to the famous definition of "pension": "In England it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state hireling for treason to his country").46 Johnson aligns himself 118 with the opposition. Academies are not only alien imports,...

...because she is female. 880 a pension: defined by Johnson, before he received his own pension in I762, as 'an allowance made to any one without an equivalent....given to a state hireling for treason to his country' (Distionary). State pensions were not, as Simkins supposes, awarded indiscriminately; after five years'...

...pension he was confronted with a certain difficulty. He had defined a pension in the dictionary as generally understood to mean "pay given to a State hireling for treason to his country." The difficulty was surmounted however, and he accepted the pension and was duly grateful. Johnson had...