The Identity of Junius with a Distinguished Living Character Established: Including the Supplement, Consisting of Fac-similies of Hand-writing and Other IllustrationsKirk & Mercein, 1818 - 300 páginas An attempt to identify Junius with Sir Philip Francis. |
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Página 74 - What! shall one of us That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers ; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes ? And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus
Página 52 - Then shall our names, Familiar in their mouths as household words, Harry the King, Bedford and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remembered.
Página 218 - subject which we must not approach without awe-,, nor speak of without reverence, which no man may question, and to which all men must submit ?' JUNIUS.—" The known laws of the land, the rights of the subject, the sanctity of charters, and the reverence due to our magistrates, must all give way, without
Página 171 - Englishmen, the least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman, in the laws and constitution of his country, and is equally called upon to make a generous contribution in support of them; ^whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.
Página 221 - House of Commons ? If this be true, what benefit do we derive from the exchange ? Tyranny, my lords, is detestable in, every shape ; but in none so formidable as when it is assumed and exercised by a number of tyrants. But, my lords, this is not the fact, this is not the constitution;
Página 228 - all; they deserve to be remembered—they deserve to be inculcated in our minds—they are worth all the classics. Let us not, then, degenerate from the glorious example of our ancestors. Those iron barons (for so I may call them when compared with the silken barons of modern days), were the guardians « of the people ;'— JUNIUS.—
Página 228 - yet their virtues, my lords, were never engaged in a question of such importance as the present. A breach has been made in the constitution—the battlements are dismantled—the citadel is open to the first invader—the walls totter—the constitution is not tenable.—What remains then, but for us to stand foremost in the breach, to repair it,, or perish in it
Página 85 - Even the callous pride of Lord Egremont was alarmed. He saw and felt his own dishonour in corresponding with you: and there certainly was a moment at which he meant to have resisted, had not a fatal lethargy prevailed over his faculties, and carried all sense and memory away with it.
Página 206 - We can never be really in danger, until the forms of Parliament are made use of to destroy the substance of our civil and political liberties ; until Parliament itself betrays its trust, by contributing to establish new principles of government, and employing the very weapons committed to it by the collective body, to stab the constitution",
Página 260 - judges of what is truly honourable for himself, with the same superior genius which animates and directs him to eloquence in debate, to wisdom in decision, even the pen of JUNIUS shall contribute to reward him. Recorded honours shall gather round his monument and thicken over him.