Junius: Including Letters by the Same Writer Under Other Signatures : To which are Added His Confidential Correspondence with Mr. Wilkes : and His Private Letters to Mr. H.S. Woodfall, Volume 1G. Bell, 1890 - English letters |
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... virtue , and when the crown did not think its revenue ill employed in contributing to support the honours it had ... virtues of a court , in which your education has not been neglected . In any other school you might have learned that ...
... virtue , and when the crown did not think its revenue ill employed in contributing to support the honours it had ... virtues of a court , in which your education has not been neglected . In any other school you might have learned that ...
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... virtues you have disgraced : but having no private resentments to gratify , I think it sufficient to have given my opinion of your public conduct , leaving the punish- ment it deserves to your closet and self . ” The rescue of General ...
... virtues you have disgraced : but having no private resentments to gratify , I think it sufficient to have given my opinion of your public conduct , leaving the punish- ment it deserves to your closet and self . ” The rescue of General ...
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... virtue in me , I can only affirm that I am in earnest , because I am con vinced , as far as my understanding is capable of judging , that the present ministry are driving this country to destruction ; and you , I think , Sir , may be ...
... virtue in me , I can only affirm that I am in earnest , because I am con vinced , as far as my understanding is capable of judging , that the present ministry are driving this country to destruction ; and you , I think , Sir , may be ...
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... virtue tortures the sense . " His detestation of the Duke of Grafton proceeded from his Grace's having abandoned his patron Lord Chatham , and the Whig principles into which he had been initiated under him , to gratify his own ambition ...
... virtue tortures the sense . " His detestation of the Duke of Grafton proceeded from his Grace's having abandoned his patron Lord Chatham , and the Whig principles into which he had been initiated under him , to gratify his own ambition ...
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... virtues , their vices may be of use to us . I care not with what principle the new - born patriot is animated , if the ... virtue of Lord Camden we have already noticed . " Lord Bute , " says he , in describing several * Vide the paper ...
... virtues , their vices may be of use to us . I care not with what principle the new - born patriot is animated , if the ... virtue of Lord Camden we have already noticed . " Lord Bute , " says he , in describing several * Vide the paper ...
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