 List, such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science and attainments in literature and the arts, have...  The English Cyclopaedia - Page 3851867Full view - About this book
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1897 - 858 pages
...above sum, £1,200 a year is intrusted to her majesty for the payment of pensions, ' to persons who have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who,...their sovereign and the gratitude of their country. CIVIL SERVICE: body of persons other than naval or military, in pay of the slate; also the duty or... | |
 | United States. President - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...public service, or to the dependent relatives of such. In England pensions are granted to those " who by their useful discoveries in science and attainments...their sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Aug. 26, 1776, the Continental Congress passed an act to provide by pension for the disabled soldiers... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - Presidents - 1897 - 712 pages
...dependent relatives of such. In England pensions are granted to those "who by their useful discoveries iu science and attainments in literature and the arts...their sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Aug. 26, 1776, the Continental Congress passed an act to provide by pension for the disabled soldiers... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1898 - 960 pages
...the above sum, £1200 a year is intrusted to her majesty for the payment of pensions, "to persons who have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who....their sovereign and the gratitude of their country." CIVIL SERVICE is a general name used in England for all the duties pnid for by the state, other than... | |
 | Scotland - Law - 1899 - 664 pages
...House of Parliament, on the eighteenth day of February one thousand eight hundred and thirtyfour, " that it is the bounden duty of the responsible advisers...literature and the arts, have merited the gracious considera" tion of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country " : And whereas it is expedient... | |
 | Alfred Spalding Harvey - Banks and banking - 1907 - 590 pages
...That it is the bounden duty of the responsible advisers of the Crown, to recommend to His Majesty for pensions on the Civil List such persons only as have...their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country." But the Legislature was by no means satisfied with a mere recommendation. In 1837 a committee of the... | |
 | United States. President, James Daniel Richardson - United States - 1907 - 778 pages
...public service, or to the dependent relatives of such. InKngland pensions are granted to those " who by their useful discoveries in science and attainments...the arts have merited the gracious consideration of theirsovereign and the gratitude of their country." Aug. 2о, 1776, the Continental Congress passed... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...and to those who by their useful discoveries in science or attainments in literature and the arts had merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Vested interests were, of course, respected ; for had we not even compensated the slaveholders ? Two... | |
 | George William Erskine Russell - England - 1907 - 412 pages
...and to those who by their useful discoveries in science or attainments in literature and the arts had merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Vested interests were, of course, respected ; for had we not even compensated the slaveholders ? Two... | |
 | United States. President - United States - 1909 - 884 pages
...d« Pensions — ('nntinw.d. pendent relatives of such. In England pensions are granted to those "who by their useful discoveries in science and attainments...their sovereign and the gratitude of their country." Ang. 26, 1776, the Continental Congress passed an act to provide by pension for the disabled soldiers... | |
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