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6548. PENSIONS, Prodigalities of.—

Nor should we wonder at * * * [the] pressure
[for a fixed constitution in 1788-9] when we
consider the monstrous abuses of power under
which * * * [the French] people were ground
to powder; when we pass in review * * * the
prodigalities of pensions.—
Autobiography. Washington ed. i, 86. Ford ed., i, 118.
(1821)