...quoting this sentence subjoins the image of Junius, plainly suggested by it : — ' Prirate credit if wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' The pamphlet, published twenty or thirty years previously, must have been quite out of date when Junius...

...from a similar principle we admire the truth of Junius. " Private credit is wealth — public credit is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Longinus very finely says of Homer's notions of the gods, that they are the dreams of Jove. Another...

...from a similar principle we admire the truth of Junius. " Private credit is wealth — public credit is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird...him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Longinus very finely says of Homer's notions of the gods, that they are the dreams of Jove. Another...

...may be well applied to this subject : — " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports him in his flight. Strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth." "The knowledge of man," says Bacon, "is as the waters, some decending from above, and some springing...

...on the funds in her treasury. " Public credit," says a vigorous writer, " is wealth ; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird,...supports his flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you pin him to the earth." Not to uphold the common credit by a watchful regard for the common integrity,...

...on the funds in her treasury. " Public credit," says a vigorous writer, " is wealth ; public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird,...supports his flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you pin him to the earth." Not to uphold the common credit by a watchful regard for the common integrity,...

...to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. efiance on the roving Indian power. Beneath, each...crowned, And arrowy frize, and wedged ravelin, Wrove Thus also he remarks — ' In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved ; while everything...

...to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. in his mind: H Thus also he remarks — ' In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved ; while everything...

...hopelessly incompatible with goodness ? Must the brightest of mankind be invariably the meanest ? " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his...flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.1' Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false...

...individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, j UNI us. 269 of independence, and of safety. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security....him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Injudiciousness of Prosecuting Mr. Wilkes. He said more than moderate men would justify, but not enough...