Letters on Junius: Addressed to John Pickering, Esq., Showing that the Author of that Celebrated Work was Earl TempleHilliard, Gray, Little, and Wilkins, 1831 - 276 pages |
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Page 265 - THE King's Speech has always been considered by the legislature, and by the public at large, as the speech of the Minister.
Page xxvi - I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me.
Page xxvi - Were he a member of this house, what might not be expected from his knowledge, his firmness, and integrity ? He would be easily known by his contempt of all danger, by his penetration, by his vigour.
Page xxv - I thought he had ventured too far, and that there was an end of his triumphs ; not that he had not asserted many truths. Yes, Sir, there are in that composition many bold truths by which a wise prince might profit.
Page xxv - No sooner has he wounded one, than he lays down another dead at his feet. For my part, when I saw his attack upon the King, I own my blood ran cold. I thought he had ventured too far, and that there was an end of his triumphs ; not that he had not asserted many truths.
Page 187 - If the charge had been a reproach, it should have been better supported. I did not intend to make a public declaration of the respect I bear Lord Chatham. I well knew what unworthy conclusions would be drawn from it. But I am called upon to deliver my opinion ; and surely it is not in the little censure of Mr. Home to deter me from doing signal justice to a man, 281 who, I confess, has grown upon my esteem.
Page 29 - Considering the situation and abilities of Lord Mansfield, I do not scruple to affirm, with the most solemn appeal to God for my sincerity, that, in my judgment, he is the very worst and most dangerous man in the kingdom. Thus far I have done my duty in endeavouring to bring him to punishment. But mine is an inferior, ministerial office in the temple of justice. — I have bound the victim, and dragged him to the altar.
Page 266 - The large debt on the civil list, already above half a year in arrear, shews pretty clearly the transactions of the winter. It is however remarkable, that the minister's speech dwells on the entire approbation given by parliament to the preliminary articles, which I will venture to say he must by this time be ashamed of; for he has been brought to confess the total want of that knowledge accuracy, and precision by which such immense advantages both of trade and territory were sacrificed to our inveterate...
Page 266 - Scottish prime minister of England. He was known by every court in Europe to be scarcely on better terms of friendship here, than at Vienna; and he was betrayed by us in the treaty of peace. What a strain of insolence, therefore, is it in a minister to lay claim to what he is conscious all his efforts tended to prevent, and meanly to arrogate to himself a share in the fame and glory of one of the greatest princes the world has ever seen. The...
Page 269 - France; and whose nephew we hope soon to see made happy in the possession of the most amiable princess in the world ? Or is it meant to assert the honour of the crown only against the united wishes of a loyal and affectionate people, founded in a happy experience of the talents, ability, integrity, and virtue of those, who have had the glory of redeeming their country from bondage and ruin, in order to support, by every art of corruption and intimidation, a weak, disjointed, incapable set of —...