| Junius - Great Britain - 1821 - 414 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... | |
| Charles Butler - Autobiography - 1822 - 706 pages
...wealth ; — public honour is security. — " The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports " its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you " fix him to the earth." It is difficult to mention another, where the image, at the same time, is so exquisitely beautiful... | |
| Charles Butler - Law - 1824 - 430 pages
...wealth ; — public honour is security. — " The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports " its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix " him to the earth." It is difficult to mention another, where the image, at the same time, is so exquisitely beautiful... | |
| Edmund Henry Barker - Authorship - 1828 - 588 pages
...the bottom and is lost for ever." (2, 360.) 40. " The feather, that adorns the royal-bird, supports his flight — strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." (2, 194.) 41. " I am not sanguine enough to expect a more plentiful harvest of parliamentary... | |
| John Swinden - 1833 - 126 pages
...credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Poetry and prose have been ransacked ; Burke, Pope, and Dryden have been made to surrender... | |
| Carl David Arfwedson - Canada - 1834 - 888 pages
...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. OF all the events that occurred in the United States, during my residence of two years,... | |
| English literature - 1837 - 596 pages
...so that of him it may be said as of the eagle, " the feather, that adorns the royal bird, supports his flight — strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Like ornaments taken from ancient temples, there are scattered sentiments strewn around full... | |
| Great Britain - 1843 - 600 pages
...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... | |
| American periodicals - 1870 - 878 pages
...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 pretences... | |
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