A Critical Enquiry Regarding the Real Author of the Letters of Junius: Proving Them to Have Been Written by Lord Viscount Sackville |
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... court- martial which was held upon him . Something or other might easily have occurred which would have extended this hatred to the Duke of Bed- ford . " The event to which we have referred would render PREFATORY REMARKS . xiii.
... court- martial which was held upon him . Something or other might easily have occurred which would have extended this hatred to the Duke of Bed- ford . " The event to which we have referred would render PREFATORY REMARKS . xiii.
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... court - martial for my trial , the only legal and effectual method of convincing the world how little foundation there has been for the torrent of calumny and abuse which has been so maliciously thrown out against me . " I had rather ...
... court - martial for my trial , the only legal and effectual method of convincing the world how little foundation there has been for the torrent of calumny and abuse which has been so maliciously thrown out against me . " I had rather ...
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... court- martial for my trial , had there been any accu- sation laid the power of summoning courts- martial , and approving their sentences , being vested in me by my commission : and no British officer or soldier could be tried by any ...
... court- martial for my trial , had there been any accu- sation laid the power of summoning courts- martial , and approving their sentences , being vested in me by my commission : and no British officer or soldier could be tried by any ...
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... court - martial being ap- pointed ; that , if I am guilty , I may suffer such punishment as I may have deserved ; and if in- nocent , that I may stand acquitted in the opi- nion of the world . But it is really too severe to have been ...
... court - martial being ap- pointed ; that , if I am guilty , I may suffer such punishment as I may have deserved ; and if in- nocent , that I may stand acquitted in the opi- nion of the world . But it is really too severe to have been ...
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... court - martial would be granted , as soon as the officers capable of giving evidence could leave their posts , but previously to the receipt of that letter , I was dismissed from all my military em- ployments . Notwithstanding which ...
... court - martial would be granted , as soon as the officers capable of giving evidence could leave their posts , but previously to the receipt of that letter , I was dismissed from all my military em- ployments . Notwithstanding which ...
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Page 102 - 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...
Page 43 - 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 44 - ... that ought to be dear to a man of honour. They are still base enough to encourage the follies of your age, as they once did the vices of your youth. As little acquainted with the rules of decorum as with the laws of morality, they will not suffer you to profit by experience, nor even to consult the propriety of a bad character. Even now they tell you that life is no more than a dramatic scene, in which the hero should preserve his consistency to the last; and that as you lived without virtue,...
Page 149 - The man who fairly and completely answers this argument, shall have my thanks and my applause. My heart is already with him. I am ready to be converted. I admire his morality, and would gladly subscribe to the articles of his faith. Grateful as I am to the GOOD BEING whose bounty has imparted to me this reasoning intellect, whatever it is, I hold myself proportionably indebted to him from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine.
Page i - 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 222 - seen the signals thrown out for your old friend " and correspondent. Be assured that I have " had good reason for not complying with them. " In the present state of things if I were to write " again I must be as silly as any of the horned " cattle that run mad through the City, or as any " of your wise Aldermen. I meant the cause and " the public. Both are given up.
Page 43 - Wooburn, 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.
Page 307 - Governor; the whole are the proceedings of a tumultuous and riotous rabble, who ought, if they had the least prudence, to follow their mercantile employment, and not trouble themselves with politics and government, which they do not understand. Some gentlemen say, ' Oh, don't break their charter ; don't take away rights granted them by the predecessors of the Crown.
Page 147 - The ministry having endeavoured to exclude the dowager out of the regency bill, the earl of Bute determined to dismiss them. Upon this the duke of Bedford demanded an audience of the , reproached him in plain terms with his duplicity, baseness, falsehood, treachery, and hypocrisy, repeatedly gave him the lie, and left him in convulsions.
Page 104 - At such a moment, no honest man will remain silent or inactive. However distinguished by rank or property, in the rights of freedom we are all equal. As we are Eng'.ishmen, the least considerable man among us has an interest equal to the proudest nobleman in the laws and constitution of his country...