The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other
Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Holding the office directly from the crown, I believe, all the royal
emoluments incident to the Cinque Port territories become by assignment his.
From the gift of these a greater number of offices and
emoluments will flow.
This being so, to remain in ignorance of the enemy's condition simply because one grudges the outlay of a hundred ounces of silver in honors and
emoluments, is the height of inhumanity.
Hutchinson rejoiced to mark the gradual growth of an aristocratic class, to whom the common people, as in duty bound, were learning humbly to resign the honors,
emoluments, and authority of state.
With the
emoluments of the cardinalship and the ministry, I say too little when I say two millions a year.
He claimed, at least, none of the exemptions and
emoluments of the romantic passion.
He has been for some time particularly desirous to serve his country in a post of good
emoluments, unaccompanied by any trouble or responsibility.
At the time of which we write, the Chamber did not meddle shabbily with the budget, as it does in the deplorable days in which we now live; it did not contemptibly reduce ministerial
emoluments, nor save, as they say in the kitchen, the candle-ends; on the contrary, it granted to each minister taking charge of a public department an indemnity, called an "outfit.
Contending vainly against the disabling advances of rheumatism, Thomas Pennyquick ruefully contemplated the prospect of being laid up at home by a long illness--with a wife and children to support, and with the
emoluments attached to his position passing into the pockets of the first stranger who could be found to occupy his place at the inn.
Mr Vincent Crummles was no sooner acquainted with the public announcement which Nicholas had made relative to the probability of his shortly ceasing to be a member of the company, than he evinced many tokens of grief and consternation; and, in the extremity of his despair, even held out certain vague promises of a speedy improvement not only in the amount of his regular salary, but also in the contingent
emoluments appertaining to his authorship.
as Mr Dennis swore) the greatest possible curse a civilised community could know, and militating more against the professional
emoluments and usefulness of the great constitutional office he had the honour to hold, than any adverse circumstances that could present themselves to his imagination.
