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" Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until your morals shall happily be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. "
Memoirs of a Life, Chiefly Passed in Pennsylvania, Within the Last Sixty ... - Page 86
by Alexander Graydon - 1811 - 378 pages
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 6

David Josiah Brewer - American essays - 1900 - 462 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet for the benefit of the succeeding age I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. Complete. From Woodfall's "Junius." IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) |N the "Canon of Pure Reason" as in the...
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The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature ..., Volume 18

Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - Anthologies - 1890 - 450 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. To THE KING. (Hypothetical speech put into the mouth of an imaginary "honest man.") December 19, 1769....
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Orations from Homer to William McKinley, Volume 5

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...be ripened to that maturity of corruption at which, philosophers tell us, the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNIUS. M TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF...
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Irish Literature, Volume 3

Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Lady Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche - English literature - 1904 - 538 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet for the benefit of the succeeding age I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNIUS. WILLIAM PERCY FRENCH. (1854 ) WILLIAM PERCY FRENCH was born at Clooniquin, County Roscommon,...
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Letters of Junius: (selected) ...

Junius - English letters - 1907 - 172 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred,...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNIUS. TO HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF BEDFORD l^tk September 1769. Mv LORD, — You are so little accustomed...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, faith, etc., is so impressive, that to me the vast age of the race and name overpower Junius. THOMAS CHATTERTON ( 1752-1770) BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE, OR, THE DETHE OF SYR CHARLES BAWDIN The feathered...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, ly Junius. THOMAS CHATTERTON ( 1752-1770) • BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE; OR, THE DETHE OF SYR CHARLES BAWDIN The...
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Junius Finally Discovered

William H. Graves - 1917 - 224 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. JUNIUS." Here I will copy his celebrated Letter to the King, for the convenience of my readers. There...
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George III. and the American Revolution: The beginnings

Frank Arthur Mumby - Great Britain - 1923 - 498 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, I could wish that your retreat might be deferred until...at which the worst examples cease to be contagious. J UNI US TO GEORGE III. [Letters of Junius.] JUNIUS. December 19, 1769. Sir, It is- the misfortune...
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English Prose and Poetry

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1926 - 928 pages
...muse, though happiest in fiction, will forget your virtues. Yet, for the benefit of the succeeding age, . Junius. THOMAS CHATTERTON ( 1752-177°) BRISTOWE TRAGEDIE; OR, THE DETHE OF SYR CHARLES BAWDIN The...
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