 | John Taylor - 1818 - 440 pages
...peace, of inde" pendence, and of safety. Private credit is " wealth;—public honour is security.—The feather ** that adorns the royal bird, supports its...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the " earth" (ii. 194, January 30, 1771.) This fine figure affords another proof of that perfect consimilitude of... | |
 | John Taylor - 1818 - 434 pages
...of those prerogatives f — JUNIUS takes the same view of the subject under the following figure : " The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and youjix him to the earth-\-." JUNIUS, as if with a prophetic eye to the very question considered in... | |
 | Junius - 1818 - 448 pages
...to an individual, or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of satiety. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal hird, supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. LETTER XLIII.... | |
 | Junius - 1820 - 514 pages
...to an individual, or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. Private credit is wealth; — -public honour is security....him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. LETTER XLIII. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, February 6, 1771. I HOPE your correspondent... | |
 | 1821 - 432 pages
...to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. XLIII. To the Printer of... | |
 | 1834 - 566 pages
...of a certificate for killing partridges !" \ " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." — Junius. of the command over their tenantry and dependents, occasioned by the infinite diversity... | |
 | Junius - 1821 - 412 pages
...mark of a hlow upon his face. P:vhpvdor! Aty. The feather that adorns the royal hird, supports Ins flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. LETTER XLIII. To the Printer of the Puhlic Mmrtiur. SIa, Fehruary 6, 1771. I HoPE your correspondent... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1822 - 706 pages
...Woodfall. In the Reminiscent's opinion, Junius 's letter on this subject is one of his best performances. It closes with a simile, which several have not scrupled...so happily illustrates and confirms the argument*. * The simile used by Mr. Burke to describe the rise of Mr. Charles Townshend on the decline of Mr.... | |
 | 1823 - 1128 pages
..." The feather," Junius has emphatically remarked, in one of the finest metaphors of our language, " the feather that adorns the royal bird, supports its flight. Strip him of its plumage, and you fix him to the earth." And what is reputation to us but the plumage to the bird?... | |
 | Charles Butler - 1824 - 368 pages
...the early intelligence, which Junius gave of this change to Woodfall. In the Reminiscent' s opinion, Junius's letter on this subject is his best performance....and so happily illustrates and confirms the argument :* — * The simile used by Mr. Burke to describe the rise of Mr. Charles Townshend on the decline... | |
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Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. 
