The Posthumous Works of Junius: To which is Prefixed, an Inquiry Respecting the Author: Also, a Sketch of the Life of John Horne Tooke |
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Page 148 - I am in doubt, whether the imposition is greater on the sovereign, or on the nation. Every friend of his country...
Page 180 - Permit me, sire, farther to observe, that whoever has already dared, or shall hereafter endeavour, by false insinuations and suggestions, to alienate your Majesty's affections from your loyal .subjects in general, and from the city of London in particular,' and to withdraw your confidence...
Page 399 - But it is all alike," he .added, " vile and contemptible. You have never flinched that I know of; and I shall always rejoice to hear of your prosperity.
Page 415 - 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 284 - The affections of your subjects may still be recovered. But, before you subdue their hearts, you must gain, a noble victory over your own. Discard those little, personal resentments, which have too long directed your public conduct. Pardon this man the remainder of his punishment ; and, if resentment still prevails, make it, what it should have been long since, an act, not of mercy, but of contempt.
Page 152 - ... from hence to the place from whence you came, and from thence to the place of execution, and there to be hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul ! Yesterday a most excellent sermon was preached by the Rev.
Page 297 - 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.
Page 32 - I do beseech you.— Though I, perchance, am vicious in my guess, As, I confess, it is my nature's plague...
Page 173 - Instead of those certain, positive rules, by which the judgment of a court of law should invariably be determined, you have fondly introduced your own unsettled notions of equity and substantial justice. Decisions given upon such principles do not alarm the public so much as they ought, because the consequence and tendency of each particular instance is not observed or regarded. In the mean time the practice gains ground ; the court of king's bench becomes a court of equity, and the judge, instead...
Page 336 - ... Middlesex. To this question I desire a direct answer : and when we have fixed our principles, we may regularly descend to the detail. The cases of Gatton and Old Sarum do not embarrass me. Their right to return members to parliament has neither fact nor theory to support it — " they have, bond fide, no electors ; " consequently there is no man to be dispossessed of his freehold.