 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1881 - 842 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." Thus also he remarks : ' In the shipwreck of the state, trifles float and are preserved ; while... | |
 | James Daniel Lynch - Judges - 1881 - 570 pages
...elegant language of Junius, ' Public Honor is security. The feather that adorns the soaring bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. ' There is something august and imposing in the idea of a State convoking in council the majestic... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1884 - 804 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honor 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. 13. The chariot ! the chariot ! its wheels roll on fire ! As the Lord coineth down... | |
 | Thomas Wallace Knox - Presidents - 1884 - 516 pages
...private credit is wealth, public honor is security; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. Indeed, +, to one whose aim of life has been to stand before the world as the hero of Marignano,... | |
 | Jeremiah Sullivan Black - Biography - 1885 - 650 pages
...the feather on the wing of your eagle, it not only decorates the royal bird, but it sustains him in his flight ; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." The advantage of simple good faith is strikingly shown in the history of British India. A handful... | |
 | Literature - 1886 - 562 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honor 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 sensation Junius created in the political world may be inferred from the manner in which... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1904 - 1076 pages
...famous metaphor of Junius: 'Public honor is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' " Da Ponte v. Board of Assessors, 35 La. Ann. 051. In another state jurisdiction, a court of... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1890 - 376 pages
...the ingenuity that gives a pleasurable surprise. ' The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to Hie earth.' Not much is to be made of this in the way of explaining the sources of royal power, and... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond, George Post Wheeler - English language - 1893 - 224 pages
...Junius: " The king's honor is that of his people. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." And the line of Chaucer: " Up rose the sun, and up rose Emilie." " The ocean, stretched between... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adorns the royal bird supports its ame to feel happy with certain miseries before our eyes. earth. Junius. Private judgment with the accent on "private " is self-will ; but with the accent on... | |
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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. 
