He is said to have pensioned Jews for purposes of translation.
The monks were pensioned off, but though the confiscated property helped to fill the empty coffers of the state, the measure aroused widespread alarm and resentment among that superstitious people.
The boy was afterwards pensioned by the French government, and died in Haiti in 1825.
Vespasian could be liberal to impoverished senators and knights, to cities and towns desolated by natural calamity, and especially to men of letters and of the professor class, several of whom he pensioned with salaries of as much as £boo a year.
In 1876 eye (and brain) trouble caused him to obtain sick leave, and finally, in 1879, to be pensioned.
