I was dismayed at first with the number of letters received from all over France asking my intercession with the minister on every possible subject from a "monument historique" to be restored, to a pension given to an old schoolmaster no longer able to work, with a large family to support.

Richelieu and Mazarin were so superstitious as to employ and pension Morin, another pretender to astrology, who cast the nativities of these two able politicians.

Any person who exhibits excitement upon the stage is discharged at the end of the week with a pension.

Besides her pension of fifty pounds a year, as an army officer's widow, there had been five hundred pounds left with the agent of her estate for her, for which Amelia did not know that she was indebted to Major Dobbin, until years later.

To my surprisement der Herr Director tells me I can retire on a pension; I am too old unt he has hired a younger man, who iss Herr Gabert.

When I was a year old Mrs. Withers was discharged; and because she had been observed to nurse me with uncommon care and affection, and was seen to shed many tears at parting from me; to reward her fidelity sir Edward settled a small pension on her, and she was allowed to come every Sunday to dine in the housekeeper's room, and see her little lady.

At the time I have the earliest recollection of her, she was become a widow, and with the pension sir Edward allowed her, and some plain work she did for our family, she maintained herself and her supposed daughter.

After two or three years they are free to rescind the contract; after ten or twelve they may leave their husbands with a stipulated pension.

to Queen Elizabeth; a man for personage, parentage, grace, gesture, valour, and many excellent parts, inferior to none of his rank in the court; who, though his lands and livelihoods were but small, having nothing known certain but his annuity and his pension, yet in state, pomp, magnificence and expenses, did equalise barons of great worth.

No pension compensates for the loss of husband, son, or father.

She left him, by will, a yearly pension of two thousand livres, which was always regularly paid him.

Johnson would have gone to Constantinople, as he himself said, had he received his pension twenty years earlier.

I could thresh his old jacket till I made his pension jingle in his pocket.'

On the top of those ruddy hills lay a baronetcy for him, and a few extra hundreds in his pension, and he meant having them both that day.

Either yesterday morning, or this, I communicated to Dr. Johnson, from Mr. M'Aulay's information, the news that Dr. Beattie had got a pension of two hundred pounds a year.

Poor Shenstone never tasted his pension.

It is not very well proved that any pension was obtained for him.

Beattie was staying in London till his pension got settled.

Early in July he had been told that he was to have a pension of £200 a year (ante, ii. 264, note 2).

Elizabeth was said to have granted Spenser a pension which Burghley intercepted, and to have ordered him a gratuity which her minister neglected to pay.

293, n. 2; Johnson's pension and W. Strahan, ii. 137, n. 1; Lee, Arthur, iii. 68, n. 3; life, wished to repeat his, iv.

292; gives him his Western Islands, ii. 290; four volumes of the Lives, iii. 372, n. 3; interview with, ii. 33; account of it, ii. 42; iii. 32; v. 125, n. 1; second interview, ii. 42, n. 2; pension, i. 372; v. 379; proposed addition to it, iv.

366, n. 2; Rousseau's pension, ii. 12, n. 1; Scotch favourites, i. 363; sea, at the age of 34 had not seen the, i. 340; n. 1; Shakespeare sad stuff, i. 497, n. 1; Shelburne, Lord, dislikes, iv.

245, 363; pension, ii. 317; on public speaking, ii. 139; Junius, suspected to be, iii. 376, n. 4; Parliamentary Logick, i. 518; satisfactory coxcomb, describes a, iii. 245, n. 1; 'Single-speech,' i. 489, n, 4; Warton, Dr., letter to, i. 519; mentioned, iv. 1, n. 1, 159, n. 3, 344.

See MASON, W. HERTFORD, first Earl of, Cock-lane ghost, goes to hear the, i. 407, n. 1; Hume, gets a pension for, ii. 317, n. 1; Johnson, correspondence with, iii. 34, n. 4.