 | Junius (pseud.) - 1806 - 316 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. voL. II. O J UN I US. LETTER XLIII. TO THE PRINTER OF THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER. SIR,... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1807 - 336 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, JL'KIUS. LETTER XLIII. TO THE PRINTER OF THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER. S.JR, Feb. 6. 1771. I HOPE your... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1809 - 364 pages
...Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security. The feather that adonis the royal bird, supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth. JUNIUS. * A mistake : he appears before tUem every day, with » madt of a blow upou lus face.... | |
 | Junius, John Mason Good - English letters - 1812 - 548 pages
...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 *. JUNIUS. LETTER XLIII. TO THE PRINTER OF THE PUBLIC ADVERTISER. SIR, eth Feb. mr I HOPE your... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1813 - 530 pages
...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 earthf. JUNIUS. * A mistake. He appears before them ever)' day, with the mark of a Sinn- upon his face.... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1814 - 620 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 earth1." Again: " Above all things, let me guard my countrymen against the meanness and folly of accepting of... | |
 | John Taylor - 1818 - 440 pages
...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" (ii. 194, January 30, 1771.) This fine figure affords another proof of that perfect consimilitude... | |
 | Junius - Fore-edge painting - 1820 - 526 pages
...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. JUNIUS. LETTER XLIII. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, February 6, 1771. I HOPE... | |
 | English literature - 1834 - 566 pages
...more of a certificate for killing partridges !" \ " The feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight; strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth." — Junius. of the command over their tenantry and dependents, occasioned by the infinite diversity... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 432 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. XLIII. To the Printer of the Public Advertiser. SIR, February 6, 1771. I HOPE your correspondent,... | |
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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. 
