 | John Timbs - Anecdotes - 1864 - 378 pages
...associations. Thus, in defending the trappings of royalty — " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth ; " or when he accused Pitt of contemplating a commercial treaty with France as an affair of... | |
 | Orator - 1864 - 186 pages
...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, 152 JOHN GAGAN, (ESTABLISHED 1811.) STATUARY AND MASON, BEAU YARD, LIJfCOLN'S-INN... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1867 - 352 pages
...king's honor, Junius varies the figure of Chatham : "The feather that adorns the royal bird, supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." Again, " In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved ; while everything... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1867 - 234 pages
...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. There is nothing in language can express the deep humiliation of being received with coldness... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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. — Juntas. Whether you look up to the top or down to the bottom, whether you mount with the... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1868 - 828 pages
...Private 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. Letter xlii. Affair of the Falkland Islands. 1 He that will not when he may, When he will, he... | |
 | English literature - 1870 - 596 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.' Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false... | |
 | 1870 - 844 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." Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false... | |
 | 1870 - 340 pages
...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.' Is the plumage of soaring ambition made up of deceit, dissimulation, vain glory, and false... | |
 | Lucien Brock Proctor - Judges - 1870 - 808 pages
...did ; and he could only say of him as Junius did of the king, "The feathers that adorn him support his flight; strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth," and that he should endeavor, in a quiet way, to take some of the gentleman' s plumage from... | |
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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. 
