The Letters of Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra |
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admitted affirm answer appear argument assert bail bailable best of Princes cause character charge committed conduct confess consider constitution contempt Court of King's Crown daring declared defend desert determined detestation dignity disgrace doctrine Duke of Bedford Duke of Grafton duty election England expulsion fact favour felony friends Grace guilty honest honour Horne House of Commons House of Lords incapacity instance insult judge Junius's jury justice justice of peace King King's Bench kingdom law of parliament legislature LETTER liberty Lord Bute Lord Chatham Lord Granby Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Rockingham Luttrell Majesty mean measures ment Minister Ministry nation never offence opinion party person PHILO JUNIUS political precedent present prince principles Printer privilege profession Public Advertiser punishment question racter resolution Sir William Draper Sovereign spirit statute supposed thing tion truth understanding violated virtue vote whole Wilkes
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Page 3 - After a rapid succession of changes, .we are reduced to that state which hardly any change can mend. Yet there is no extremity of distress which, of itself, ought to reduce a great nation to despair. It is not the disorder, but the physician ; it is not a casual concurrence of calamitous circumstances, it is the pernicious hand of government, which alone can make a whole people desperate.
Page 50 - Charles the second was a hypocrite of another sort, and should have died upon the same scaffold. At the distance of a century, we see their different characters happily revived, and blended in your Grace. Sullen and severe without religion, profligate without gaiety, you live like Charles the second, without being an amiable companion, and, for aught I know, may die as his father did, without the reputation of a martyr.
Page 6 - Their declaration gave spirit and argument to the Colonies; and while perhaps they meant no more than the ruin of a minister, they in effect divided one half of the Empire from the other.
Page 154 - That the king can do no wrong, is admitted without reluctance. We separate the amiable, good-natured prince from the folly and treachery of his servants, and the private virtues of the man from the vices of his government. Were it not for this just distinction, I know not whether your majesty's condition, or that of the English nation, would deserve most to be lamented. I would prepare your mind for a favourable reception of truth, by removing every painful offensive idea of personal reproach.
Page 341 - THERE are three points to be considered in the construction of all remedial statutes ; the old law, the mischief, and the remedy : that is, how the common law stood at the making of the act ; what the mischief was, for which the common law did not provide ; and what remedy the parliament hath provided to cure this mischief. And it is the business of the judges so to construe the act, as to suppress the mischief and advance the remedy e.
Page 1 - THE submission of a free people to the executive authority of government, is no more than a compliance with laws which they themselves have enacted.
Page 209 - ... who ever heard you mention Magna Charta, or the Bill of Rights, with approbation or respect ? By such treacherous arts the noble simplicity and free spirit of our Saxon laws were first corrupted. The Norman conquest was not complete, until Norman lawyers had introduced their laws, and reduced slavery to a system.
Page 156 - To honour them with a determined predilection and confidence, in exclusion of your English subjects, who placed your family and, in spite of treachery and rebellion, have supported it upon the throne, is a mistake too gross even for the unsuspecting generosity of youth.
Page 112 - Woburn, 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. No honest Englishman will 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 155 - ... to possess you. Distrust the men who tell you that the English are naturally light and inconstant ; that they complain without a cause. Withdraw your confidence equally from all parties ; from ministers, favourites, and relations ; and let there be one moment in your life in which you have consulted your own understanding.