A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of JuniusW. Phillips, 1825 - 382 pages |
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... soldier could be tried by any other au- thority . As soon as I arrived in London on Friday evening , the 7th , I instantly wrote the following letter to the Secretary of State : C MY LORD , I HAVE the honour of acquainting your lord ...
... soldier could be tried by any other au- thority . As soon as I arrived in London on Friday evening , the 7th , I instantly wrote the following letter to the Secretary of State : C MY LORD , I HAVE the honour of acquainting your lord ...
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... soldier was afterwards exercised in re- taliation ; not one family being spared who had any share in the transaction ; and what is parti- cularly worthy of notice , nearly the whole of the names on whom Junius is most severe , were mi ...
... soldier was afterwards exercised in re- taliation ; not one family being spared who had any share in the transaction ; and what is parti- cularly worthy of notice , nearly the whole of the names on whom Junius is most severe , were mi ...
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... soldier never disputes the commands of his supe- rior . " This evidently alludes to Lord George , whom he suspected was the author of the attack in question , and concludes an able letter by saying " It matters not whether the malicious ...
... soldier never disputes the commands of his supe- rior . " This evidently alludes to Lord George , whom he suspected was the author of the attack in question , and concludes an able letter by saying " It matters not whether the malicious ...
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... soldiers , and the esteem of your country . Your charac- ter , once spotless , once irreproachable , has been drawn ... soldier Junius speaks of , ap- pears to have been himself . Aug. 25 , 1767. - Of Lord Townshend and his brother the ...
... soldiers , and the esteem of your country . Your charac- ter , once spotless , once irreproachable , has been drawn ... soldier Junius speaks of , ap- pears to have been himself . Aug. 25 , 1767. - Of Lord Townshend and his brother the ...
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... soldier fighting near Lord Townshend's side , was killed by a cannon ball : part of his brains flew out ; some on his Lordship's clothes and in his face . The brave General G- 6 being near him , said My Lord , this is terrible work to ...
... soldier fighting near Lord Townshend's side , was killed by a cannon ball : part of his brains flew out ; some on his Lordship's clothes and in his face . The brave General G- 6 being near him , said My Lord , this is terrible work to ...
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Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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,...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...