The Right Honourable Annuitant Vindicated With a Word Or Two in Favour of the Ot
The Right Honourable Annuitant Vindicated With a Word Or Two in Favour of the Ot
Thomas Crawford
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It is well known that the noble fpirit of charity and munificence, fo peculiar to this country, gave rife to tlje noble, infti- tutions of Chelfea and Greenwich Colleges, for the fupport of decayed Veterans in our fervice both by land and fea ; and it is alfo further known that the old or dif- abied foldiers and feamen maintained by thefe charities are called PENSIONERS. To this it is that we owe, in the midft of fuch, a cloud of naval terms, the intro- G duclion. ( 46 ) du&ion of thofe remarka...ble words, PEN- SIONER AS YOU ARE. The elegant An- fwerer, while he confiders the State as a Ship j the holding the Teals as guiding the le/m ; 'the Minifter as theP/70/; the people, or perhaps only the Members of the H of C ns, as the Crew \ bad Meafures as Rocks and ^ulckfands ; War^s a Storm ; and Peace as the Harbour-, at the fame time heightens the fimilitude by looking on the Right Honourable An- nuitant as a Grccniw' c b-C \leg e PENSION- ER : by which ingenious allufion to our pwn im es and manners, he not only far tranfcends the Simplicity of Horace, but.
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