Letters to a Nobleman, Proving a Late Prime Minister to Have Been Junius: And Developing the Secret Motives which Induced Him to Write Under that and Other SignaturesLongman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1816 - 250 pages |
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Page 82 - We owe it to our ancestors, to preserve entire those rights which they have delivered to our care. We owe it to our posterity, not to suffer their dearest inheritance to be destroyed. But, if it were possible for us to be insensible of these sacred claims, there is yet an obligation binding upon ourselves, from which nothing can acquit us; a personal interest, which we cannot surrender.
Page 82 - ... yet an obligation binding upon ourselves from which nothing can acquit us ; a personal interest which we cannot surrender. To alienate even our own rights, would be a crime as much more enormous than suicide, as a life of civil security and freedom is superior to a bare existence; and if life be the bounty of Heaven, we scornfully reject the noblest part of the gift if we consent to surrender that certain rule of living, without which the condition of human nature is not only miserable, but contemptible.
Page 79 - Doctor Blackstone is solicitor to the queen. The doctor recollected that he had a place to preserve, though he forgot that he had a reputation to lose. We have now the good fortune to understand the doctor's principles as well as writings. For the defence of truth, of law, and reason, the doctor's book may be safely consulted ; but whoever wishes to cheat a neighbour of his estate, or to rob a country of its rights, need make no scruple of consulting the doctor himself.
Page 12 - Place, for instance, before your eyes, such a man as Montesquieu. Think of a genius not born in every country, or every time ; a man gifted by nature with a penetrating aquiline eye ; with a judgment prepared with the most extensive erudition ; with an herculean robustness of mind, and nerves not to be broken with labour ; a man who could spend twenty years in one pursuit.
Page 83 - Suppo'se you were to say — We have some reason to suspect that the last letter signed Junius in this paper, was not written by the real Junius, though the observation escaped us at the time...
Page 112 - Recorded honours shall gather round his monument, and thicken over him. It is a solid fabric, and will support the laurels that adorn it. — I am not conversant in the language of panegyric. — These praises are extorted from me ; but they will wear well, for they have been dearly earned.
Page 79 - The spirit of the favourite had some apparent influence upon every administration; and every set of ministers preserved an appearance of duration as long as they submitted to that influence. But there were certain services to be performed for the favourite's security, or to gratify his resentments, which your predecessors in office had the wisdom or the virtue not to undertake. The moment this refractory spirit was discovered, their disgrace was determined.
Page 170 - The truth is, there are people about me, whom I would wish not to contradict, and who had rather see Junius in the papers ever so improperly, than not at all.
Page 3 - The Case of His Grace the Duke of Portland. Respecting two leases, lately granted by the Lords of the Treasury, to Sir James Lowther, Bart., with Observations on the Motion for a Remedial Bill, for quieting the Possession of the Subject.
Page 88 - Injuries may be atoned for and forgiven; but insults admit of no compensation. They degrade the mind in its own esteem, and force it to recover its level by revenge.