A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of JuniusW. Phillips, 1825 - 382 pàgines |
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Pàgina v
... sufficient evidence appears to set the question at rest . These Memoirs extend to the close of the reign of George the Second , after which period he led a retired life at his favourite villa , Straw- berry Hill , varying it , however ...
... sufficient evidence appears to set the question at rest . These Memoirs extend to the close of the reign of George the Second , after which period he led a retired life at his favourite villa , Straw- berry Hill , varying it , however ...
Pàgina xi
... sufficiently important to induce him to write no more . XXIV . Finally , that so powerful an attack on the private character of persons of such high rank , being inconsistent with the pen of political writers , in general , who condemn ...
... sufficiently important to induce him to write no more . XXIV . Finally , that so powerful an attack on the private character of persons of such high rank , being inconsistent with the pen of political writers , in general , who condemn ...
Pàgina xvii
... sufficient specimen of his autography to affix to the pub- lication , although it corresponds exactly with the description of Junius's hand - writing given by Charles Butler , Esq . of Lincoln's Inn : - " It is like that which well ...
... sufficient specimen of his autography to affix to the pub- lication , although it corresponds exactly with the description of Junius's hand - writing given by Charles Butler , Esq . of Lincoln's Inn : - " It is like that which well ...
Pàgina xxi
... sufficient to shew that a very close re- semblance can hardly be expected between them ; one being written in a familiar , careless manner , and the others , both with regard to style and writing , greatly laboured . Nevertheless , most ...
... sufficient to shew that a very close re- semblance can hardly be expected between them ; one being written in a familiar , careless manner , and the others , both with regard to style and writing , greatly laboured . Nevertheless , most ...
Pàgina 11
... sufficient cause of enmity on both sides . It was during this campaign that he was witness to Lord Ravensworth's assertion of Lord Mans- field having drank the Pretender's health on his knees ; with other circumstances alluded to by ...
... sufficient cause of enmity on both sides . It was during this campaign that he was witness to Lord Ravensworth's assertion of Lord Mans- field having drank the Pretender's health on his knees ; with other circumstances alluded to by ...
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 102 - Let it be impressed upon your minds, let it be instilled into your children, that the liberty of the press is the palladium of all the civil, political, and religious rights of an Englishman...
Pàgina 43 - ever forget his attachment, nor any honest Scotchman forgive his treachery, to lord Bute. At every town he enters, he must change his liveries and name. Whichever way he flies, the hue and cry of the country pursues him.
Pàgina 44 - ... that ought to be dear to a man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the rules of decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now they tell you that life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should preserve his consistency to the last; and that as you lived without virtue,...
Pàgina 149 - The man who fairly and completely answers this argument, shall have my thanks and my applause. My heart is already with him. I am ready to be converted. I admire his morality, and would gladly subscribe to the articles of his faith. Grateful as I am to the GOOD BEING whose bounty has imparted to me this reasoning intellect, whatever it is, I hold myself proportionably indebted to him from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine.
Pàgina i - When Kings and ministers are forgotten, when the force and direction of personal satire is no longer understood, and when measures are only felt in their remotest consequences, this book will, I believe, be found to contain principles worthy to be transmitted to posterity.
Pàgina 222 - seen the signals thrown out for your old friend " and correspondent. Be assured that I have " had good reason for not complying with them. " In the present state of things if I were to write " again I must be as silly as any of the horned " cattle that run mad through the City, or as any " of your wise Aldermen. I meant the cause and " the public. Both are given up.
Pàgina 43 - Wooburn, scorn and mockery await him. He must create a solitude round his estate, if he would avoid the face of reproach and derision. At Plymouth, his destruction would be more than probable ; at Exeter, inevitable.
Pàgina 307 - Governor; the whole are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors of the Crown.
Pàgina 147 - The ministry having endeavoured to exclude the dowager out of the regency bill, the earl of Bute determined to dismiss them. Upon this the duke of Bedford demanded an audience of the , reproached him in plain terms with his duplicity, baseness, falsehood, treachery, and hypocrisy, repeatedly gave him the lie, and left him in convulsions.
Pàgina 104 - At such a moment, no honest man will remain silent or inactive. However distinguished by rank or property, in the rights of freedom we are all equal. As we are Eng'.ishmen, the least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman in the laws and constitution of his country...