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adminiftration affert againſt anſwer bail bailable becauſe cafe caufe cauſe character conduct confefs confequence confider conftitution court declared defend deferting difgrace doctrine Duke of Bedford Duke of Grafton election Engliſh eſtabliſhed expulfion fafely faid fame favour fecurity feems fenfe fervice fhall fhould fince firft fituation folicit fome foon fpirit friends ftand ftate ftatute ftill fubject fubmit fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofed fupport fyftem Grace himſelf honeft honour houfe houſe of commons inftance infult intereft itſelf judge juftice jury King laft leaft lefs LETTER Lord Bute Lord Camden Lord Chatham Lord Granby Lord Mansfield Lord North Lord Rockingham Luttrell Majefty meaſures ment minifter miniftry moft moſt muft muſt neceffary never obferve perfon PHILO JUNIUS poffible prefent principles PRINTER profeffion puniſhment purpoſe queftion reafon refolution refpect reprefentatives Sir William Draper ſpeak thefe themſelves theſe thofe thoſe tion truft underſtanding uſe vote whofe Wilkes yourſelf
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Page 251 - Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.
Page 92 - ... troops. Stand forth, my lord ; for thou art the man. Lord Bute found no resource of dependence or security in the proud, imposing superiority of Lord Chatham's abilities, the shrewd, inflexible judgment of Mr. Grenville, nor in the mild but determined integrity of Lord Rockingham.
Page 139 - 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 94 - With what force, my lord, with what protection are you prepared to meet the united detestation of the people of England ? The city of London has given a generous example to the kingdom in what manner a king of this country ought to be...
Page 140 - 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.
Page 92 - ... before he happily arrived at the caput mortuum of vitriol in your Grace. Flat and insipid in your retired state, but brought into action, you become vitriol again. Such are the extremes of alternate indolence or fury, which have governed your whole administration.
Page 134 - He would never have been insulted with virtues which he had laboured to extinguish, nor suffered the disgrace of a mortifying defeat, which has made him ridiculous and contemptible, even to the few by whom he was not detested.
Page 378 - As to cutting away the rotten boroughs, I am as much offended as any man at seeing so many of them under the direct influence of the crown, or at the disposal of private persons.
Page 180 - ... the unsuspecting generosity of youth. In this error we see a capital violation of the most obvious rules of policy and prudence. We trace it, however, to an original bias in your education, and are ready to allow for your inexperience.
Page 31 - When our gracious sovereign ascended the throne, we were a flourishing and a contented people. If the personal virtues of a king could have insured the happiness of his subjects, the scene could not have altered so entirely as it has done. The idea of uniting all parties, of trying all characters, and distributing the offices of state by rotation, was gracious and benevolent to an extreme, though it has not yet produced the many salutary effects which were intended by it.