All departmental expenses were to be submitted for the approval of the comptrollergeneral, a number of sinecures were suppressed, the holders of them being compensated, and the abuse of the" acquits au comptant "was attacked, while Turgot appealed personally to the king against the lavish giving of places and pensions. [Please select]
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And, if that is not just, is it not proper to refuse literary property to every author holding public offices, and receiving pensions or sinecures. [Please select]
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His sick-room was crowded with courtiers and sycophants, and he was selling sinecures up to the day of his death. [Please select]
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By making profit on our product, by accepting sinecures, and by exacting exorbitant wages. [Please select]
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It may be selling sinecures and captaincies in a year or two, and putting another shilling in the pound upon land. [Please select]
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He opposed the government because he hated war, taxation and sinecures. [Please select]
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This, it was urged, arose from the making all these offices sinecures in England. [Please select]
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, during his first Parliament, 271 members held offices, pensions, and sinecures; in the first of George II. [Please select]
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Such sinecures and the pensions on the civil list or the Irish establishment provided the funds by which the king could build up a personal influence, which was yet occult, irresponsible, and corrupt. [Please select]
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This saving was, in fact, fatal to the success of Springer's proposal, since it meant the extinction of so many sinecures bestowed through congressional favor. [Please select]
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