The Letters of Junius: Stat Nominis Umbra, Volumen1Printed and published for the proprietors by Harrison, 1804 - 466 páginas |
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... period of society , are the inventors of arts ex- alted , in the imagination of men , to the rank of deities , on account of their inventions . While mankind see little or nothing but natural appearances and changes , whose re- lafions ...
... period of society , are the inventors of arts ex- alted , in the imagination of men , to the rank of deities , on account of their inventions . While mankind see little or nothing but natural appearances and changes , whose re- lafions ...
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... period of society , to abuse it . The sudden acquisition of unlooked - for wealth , hurries him , on whom it is bestowed , to vain unmeaning extrava- gance , and contemptible pride . An ingenious youth , when his mind opens to new ...
... period of society , to abuse it . The sudden acquisition of unlooked - for wealth , hurries him , on whom it is bestowed , to vain unmeaning extrava- gance , and contemptible pride . An ingenious youth , when his mind opens to new ...
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... period in the general advance- ment of the art . Poetry may be comprehended , for this period , with ELOQUENCE : for , they are not originally two distinct arts , but one only ; and their subdivision begins just where this period has ...
... period in the general advance- ment of the art . Poetry may be comprehended , for this period , with ELOQUENCE : for , they are not originally two distinct arts , but one only ; and their subdivision begins just where this period has ...
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... period of the progress of ELOQUENCE will , of course , be indefinitely prolonged . Other causes need not be sought to explain the prevalence of false taste , for so many ages , in the regions of the East , and in other parts of the ...
... period of the progress of ELOQUENCE will , of course , be indefinitely prolonged . Other causes need not be sought to explain the prevalence of false taste , for so many ages , in the regions of the East , and in other parts of the ...
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... period , renders that ELO- QUENCE strikingly unfit for many of the subordinate uses of the formal communication or commemoration of thought among men . When , in the first era of ELOQUENCE , there was nothing in it but the force of ...
... period , renders that ELO- QUENCE strikingly unfit for many of the subordinate uses of the formal communication or commemoration of thought among men . When , in the first era of ELOQUENCE , there was nothing in it but the force of ...
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Página 259 - You are so little accustomed to receive any marks of respect or esteem from the public, that if, in the following lines, a compliment or expression of applause should escape me, I fear you would consider it as a mockery of your established character, and, perhaps, an insult to your understanding.
Página 145 - ... immortal; and as for your personal character I will not, for the honour of human nature, suppose that you can wish to have it remembered. The condition of the...
Página 168 - The spirit of the Favourite had some apparent influence upon every administration ; and every set of ministers preserved an appearance of duration, as long as they submitted to that influence. But there were certain services to be performed for the favourite's security, or to gratify his resentments, which your predecessors in office had the wisdom or the virtue not to undertake. The moment this refractory spirit was discovered their disgrace was determined.
Página 162 - IF nature had given you an understanding qualified to keep pace with the wishes and principles of your heart, she would have made you, perhaps, the most formidable minister that ever was employed, under a limited monarch, to accomplish the ruin of a free people. When neither the feelings of shame, the reproaches of conscience, nor the dread of punishment, form any bar to the designs of a minister, the people would have too much reason to lament their condition, if they did not find some resource...
Página 275 - Let it not be recorded of you that the latest moments of your life were dedicated to the same unworthy pursuits, the same busy agitations, in which your youth and manhood were exhausted. Consider that, although you cannot disgrace your former life, you are violating the character of age, and exposing the impotent imbecility, after you have lost the vigour, of the passions. Your friends will ask, perhaps, Whither shall this unhappy old man retire?
Página 275 - 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.
Página vii - 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.
Página 40 - If, by the immediate interposition of Providence, it were possible for us to escape a crisis so full of terror and despair, posterity will not believe the history of the present times. They will either conclude that our distresses were imaginary, or that we had the good fortune to be governed by men of acknowledged integrity and wisdom : they will not believe it possible, that their ancestors could have survived or recovered from so desperate a condition, while a duke of Grafton was prime minister,...
Página 267 - I reverence the afflictions of a good man — his sorrows are sacred. But how can we take part in the distresses of a man whom we can neither love nor esteem, or feel for a calamity of which he himself is insensible? Where was the father's heart when he could look for or find an immediate consolation for the loss of an only son in consultations and bargains for a place at court, and even in the misery of balloting at the India House?
Página 274 - Let us consider you, then, as arrived at the summit of worldly greatness; let us suppose that all your plans of avarice and ambition are accomplished, and your most sanguine wishes...