...[the name of a faction]. " PENSION [an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In Engttmd it is generally understood to mean pay given to a...slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS fa grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scot land supports the people]....

...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....it is generally understood to mean pay given to a state-hireling for treason to his country.' Johnson, it will be remembered, had not yet been pensioned,...

...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...

...distinction. Johnson was uneasy about taking the £300 annual grant, given his definitions of "pension" and "pensioner" ("A slave of State hired by a stipend to obey his master") in the Dictionary and his fear of loss of independence. When he was asked to aid government with his...

...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'...