 | Noah Porter - 1881 - 506 페이지
...Pensioner is defined to be " A slave of state hired by stipend to obey his master." Oats he describes as " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland sup•>orts the people." The private opinions of Noah WebI 24 Books and Reading. [CHAP, n «ter look... | |
 | Samuel Arthur Bent - 1882 - 638 페이지
...man gets a full meal." His definition of " oats " was one of the curiosities of the Dictionary : " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Sydney Smith said, " It takes a surgical operation to get a joke well into a Scotch understanding."... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - 1882 - 1108 페이지
...visitings' at his subsequent acceptance of one. He mortally offended the Scotch by defining oats to be 'a grain which, in England, is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people.' Lord Chesterfield, hoping to secure its dedication to himself, extolled it; but his favor, once sought... | |
 | 1882 - 884 페이지
...equivalent. In England it is generallv 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. " Excise, a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property,... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1882 - 920 페이지
...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. " Excise, a hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the common judges of property,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1882 - 634 페이지
...place that he could get. ' Seldom, indeed,' says Lord Stanhope, ' has any Minister, with so short * ' Pensioner : a slave of State hired by a stipend to obey his master. 1 Petition : an allowance made to any one without an equivalent. In England it is generally understood... | |
 | James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 페이지
...adjudged, not by the common jndges of property, but wretches hired by those to whom excise is paid. Oats: A 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. In England it is generally understood... | |
 | Addison Peale Russell - 1883 - 378 페이지
...and comparisons are odious, Mr. Strahan ; but God made hell." Oats he defines, in his Dictionary, " A grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." " Yes," observed Lord Elibank, when he heard the offensive definition, " and where will you find such... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - 1884 - 536 페이지
...lexicographers. He frankly acknowledged that he meant to vex the Scotch by his rendering of the word "Oats : a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people." Boswell certainly scored one against him when he asked : " But where will you find such horses, and... | |
 | James Boswell - 1884 - 742 페이지
...predominance of his private feelings in the composition of this work, than any now to be found in it. " OATS [a grain which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland supports the people]. — Croker. He thus defines Excise : " A hateful tax levied upon commodities, and adjudged not by the... | |
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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]. " PENSIONER [a slave of state hired by a stipend to obey his master]. " OATS [a grain... 
