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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. "
The Analytical Review, Or History of Literature, Domestic and Foreign, on an ... - Page 202
1792
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The Letters of Junius: "Stat Nominis Umbra."

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...
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler, Esq, Volume 1

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...
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Reminiscences of Charles Butler ...

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...
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I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the Authorship of Junius's ...

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...
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The North American Review, Volume 29

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1829 - 618 pages
...view of the subject under the following figure ; " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth." ' Now it happens, as any one may see on a reference to the context, and as would have appeared...
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Junius Lord Chatham, and the "Miscellaneous Letters" Proved to be Spurious

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...
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The United States and Canada, in 1832, 1833 and 1834, Volumes 1-2

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,...
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The Metropolitan, Volume 20

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...
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The Church Magazine, Volume 5

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 105

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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