The Letters of Junius: "Stat Nominis Umbra."E. Duyckinck, 1821 - 372 páginas |
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admitted affirm answer appear argument assert bail bailable best of Princes Bute cause character charge conduct confess consider constitution contempt Crown daring declared defend desert determined detestation dignity disgrace doctrine Duke of Bedford Duke of Grafton duty election endeavour England expelled expulsion fact favour friends Grace guard honest honour Horne House of Commons House of Lords incapacity injury judge jury justice King law of parliament legislature LETTER liament liberty Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Granby Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Rockingham Luttrell Majesty mean measures ment Middlesex Minister Ministry nation never offence opinion party person PHILO JUNIUS political precedent present principles Printer privilege proceedings Public Advertiser punishment question racter reproach resolution sion Sir William Draper Sovereign spirit statute supposed thing thought tion treachery truth violated virtue vote Walpole whole Wilkes
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Página 4 - ... contribution. But, unfortunately for this country, Mr. Grenville was at any rate to be distressed, because he was Minister ; and Mr. Pitt* and Lord Camden were to be the patrons of America, because they were in opposition. Their...
Página 155 - In these circumstances, it may be matter of curious speculation to consider, if an honest man were permitted to approach a king, in what terms he would address himself to his sovereign.
Página 169 - ... it. There are, however, two points of view in which it particularly imports your majesty to consider the late proceedings of the house of commons. By depriving a subject of his birthright they have attributed to their own vote an authority equal to an act of the whole legislature ; and, though perhaps not with the same motives, have strictly followed the example of the long parliament, which first declared the regal office useless, and soon after, with as little ceremony, dissolved the house...
Página 329 - 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, and that the right of juries...
Página 291 - I did not intend to make a public declaration of the respect I bear Lord Chatham. I well knew what unworthy conclusions would be drawn from it. But I am called upon to deliver my opinion, and surely it is not in the little censure of Mr. Home to deter me from doing signal justice to a man, who, I confess, has grown upon my esteem*.
Página 158 - ... the dearest tribute of their affections. Such, Sir, was once the disposition of a people, who now surround your throne with reproaches and complaints. Do justice to yourself. Banish from your mind those unworthy opinions, with which some interested persons have laboured to possess you.
Página 164 - The people of Ireland have been uniformly plundered and oppressed. In return they give you every day fresh marks of their resentment. They despise the miserable governor" you have sent them, because he is the creature of lord Bute ; nor is it from any natural confusion in their ideas, that they are so ready to confound the original of a king with the disgraceful representation of him.
Página 165 - They consider you as united with your servants against America; and know how to distinguish the Sovereign and a venal parliament on one side, from the real sentiments of the English people on the other.
Página 62 - ... wishes and principles of your heart, she would have made you, perhaps, the most formidable minister that ever was employed under a limited monarch to accomplish the ruin of a free people. When neither the feelings of shame, the reproaches of conscience, nor the dread of punishment, form any bar to the designs of a minister, the people would have too much reason to lament their condition, if they did not find some resource in the weakness of his understanding.
Página 159 - On your part we are satisfied that every thing was honourable and sincere, and if England was sold to France, we doubt not that your majesty was equally betrayed. The conditions of the peace were matter of grief and surprise to your subjects, but not tHe immediate cause of their present discontent. Hitherto, sir, you had been sacrificed to the prejudices and passions of others.