sinecurist

• “A venal and self-serving lackey, the sinecurist heir to the translating throne?”

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• “Yet, sinecurist as he was, Selwyn often regarded his position as a hard necessity, especially when he was driven into the country to look after his constituents.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “He would then heartily wish himself out of Parliament: the sorrows of a sinecurist might well be the title of some of the letters written from Matson.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “The Indian nabob, or millionaire as we should now call him, had begun to desire a seat in Parliament for his own purposes, just as the sinecurist did for his, and he was able to outbid the home purchaser.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “As a politician Selwyn, as has already been said, was a sinecurist; he never took a political interest in affairs of state, and he looked at events which have become historical from an unpolitical point of view.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “It would be absurd to censure him because he was a sinecurist; he was acting according to the customs of the time.”

  George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life

• “Nor was this all; for his influence in Gloucestershire enabled him to secure, during many years, his own seat for Gloucester, thus rendering his borough disposable; and thus, master of a hereditary fortune, an easy sinecurist, the possessor of two votes, and the influencer of the third -- a man of family,”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844

• “His man is a man of business; his embassy is no showy sinecure; his ambassador is no showy sinecurist.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843

• “Great genius to great madness is allied." the genius of these days looks even to St Luke's, like Oxford, as a berth in _dernier ressort_, where a sinecurist may enjoy bed and board at the cost of the state, and as a fair _honorario_ for the trouble of concocting a new scheme for raising the wind, or getting a living.”

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843

• “Because, however I try to gloss it over, I was, while I held it, a sinecurist, pure and simple.”

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