I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's Letters, Disproved: II. Some Inquiry Into the Claims of the Late Charles Lloyd, Esq., to the Composition of Them: III. Observations on the Conduct, Character, and Style of the Writings, of the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke: IV. Extracts from the Writings of Several Eminent Philologists, on the Laconic and Asiatic, the Attic and Rhodian Styles of EloquenceJ. Bohn, 1828 - 504 pages |
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... original might be shewn , was acquainted with the natural hand - writing of Junius , and might be able to detect it in spite of the disguise . This supposition , that the writer was a person known to Garrick , is further countenanced by ...
... original might be shewn , was acquainted with the natural hand - writing of Junius , and might be able to detect it in spite of the disguise . This supposition , that the writer was a person known to Garrick , is further countenanced by ...
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... originals , and then he could have incurred no risk . But from the necessity there seems to have been that his natural hand - writing should not be seen even by Woodfall , and from his undeviating use of a feigned cha- racter in his ...
... originals , and then he could have incurred no risk . But from the necessity there seems to have been that his natural hand - writing should not be seen even by Woodfall , and from his undeviating use of a feigned cha- racter in his ...
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... original , will doubt- less , as must be unavoidable in such undertakings , be able to detect some mistakes ; but none , it may be asserted , of very material consequence . The body of the style is firm and compact , full of sinews and ...
... original , will doubt- less , as must be unavoidable in such undertakings , be able to detect some mistakes ; but none , it may be asserted , of very material consequence . The body of the style is firm and compact , full of sinews and ...
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... original . A gramma- rian , like Dionysius , might despise Polybius for not understanding the structure of words , and Lord Mon- boddo might wish for a version into Attic Greek . ” " His ( Burke's ) first avowed Work , the Vindication ...
... original . A gramma- rian , like Dionysius , might despise Polybius for not understanding the structure of words , and Lord Mon- boddo might wish for a version into Attic Greek . ” " His ( Burke's ) first avowed Work , the Vindication ...
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... original , which has been caught ; but the whole mind of the Peer , his train of thought , the power to enter into his conceptions , seemed to be trans- fused into the pen of his imitator with a fidelity and ' grace beyond the reach of ...
... original , which has been caught ; but the whole mind of the Peer , his train of thought , the power to enter into his conceptions , seemed to be trans- fused into the pen of his imitator with a fidelity and ' grace beyond the reach of ...
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Page 374 - The question with me is, not whether you have a right to render your people miserable ; but whether it is / not your interest to make them happy. It is not, what a lawyer tells me I may do ; but what humanity, reason, and justice, tell me I ought to do.
Page 430 - It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then the dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in, glittering like the morning star, full of life, and splendour, and joy.
Page 444 - The storm has gone over me ; and I lie like one of those old oaks which the late hurricane has scattered about me. I am stripped of all my honours, I am torn up by the roots, and lie prostrate on the earth ! There, and prostrate there, I most unfeignedly recognize the Divine justice, and in some degree submit to it.
Page 433 - He has visited all Europe, — not to survey the sumptuousness of palaces, or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of the remains of ancient grandeur, nor to form a scale of the curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals, or collate manuscripts : — but to dive into the depths of dungeons; to plunge into the infection of hospitals ; to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain ; to take the gauge and dimensions of misery, depression, and contempt...
Page 274 - House, except in such things as some way related to the business that was to be done within it. If he was ambitious, I will say this for him, his ambition was of a noble and generous strain. It was to raise himself, not .by the low, pimping politics of a Court, but to win his way to power through the laborious gradations of public service ; and to secure to himself a well-earned rank in Parliament, by a. thorough knowledge of its constitution and a perfect practice in all its business.
Page 377 - ... if commerce and the arts should be lost in an experiment to try how well a state may stand without these old fundamental principles, what sort of a thing must be a nation of gross, stupid, ferocious, and at the same time, poor and sordid barbarians, destitute of religion, honour, or manly pride, possessing nothing at present, and hoping for nothing hereafter?
Page 492 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 492 - If there's a power above us (And that there is all Nature cries aloud Through all her works). He must delight in virtue ; And that which He delights in must be happy. But when ? or where ? This world was made for Caesar — I'm weary of conjectures — this must end them.
Page 7 - Junius would be of service to Lord Chatham. My vote will hardly recommend him to an increase of his pension, or to a seat in the cabinet. But if his ambition be upon a level with his understanding — if he judges of what is truly honourable...
Page 68 - He appears by his modest and unaffected narration to have described things as he saw them, to have copied nature from the life, and to have consulted his senses, not his imagination. He meets with no basilisks that destroy with their eyes; his crocodiles devour their prey without tears, and his cataracts fall from the rocks without deafening the neighbouring inhabitants.