An Address to the British Public: On the Case of Brigadier-General Picton, Late Governor and Captain-general of the Island of Trinidad; with Observations on the Conduct of William Fullarton ... and the Right Honourable John SullivanD. Jaques and sold by J. Budd, 1806 - 282 pages |
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Page 279 - I have protracted my work till most of those whom I wished to please have sunk into the grave ; and success and miscarriage are empty sounds. I therefore dismiss it with frigid tranquillity, having little to fear or hope from censure or from praise.
Page 1 - I am not contending for a vain punctilio. A clear, unblemished character, comprehends not only the integrity that will not offer, but the spirit that will not submit to, an injury; and whether it belongs to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. 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.
Page 278 - When I am animated by this wish, I look with pleasure on my book, however defective, and deliver it to the world with the spirit of a man that has endeavoured well.
Page 279 - ... and the world is little solicitous to know whence proceeded the faults of that which it condemns, yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of...
Page 18 - November, 1702, in the first year of our reign. "1. With these our instructions you will receive our commission...
Page 18 - Province, and to do and execute all things belonging to Your Command, according to the several Powers and Authorities of Our said Commission under Our Great Seal of Great Britain, and...
Page 67 - THE HUDSON'S BAY COMPANY TO LORD SELKIRK.™ This Indenture made the twelfth day of June in the fiftyfirst year of the Reign of Our Sovereign Lord George the Third, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King Defender of the Faith, and in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eleven.
Page 18 - ... such further powers, instructions and authorities, as shall at any time hereafter be granted or appointed you, under our signet and sign manual, or by our order in our privy council...
Page 14 - Colonel Picton, if I knew any officer who, in my opinion, could discharge the duties annexed to this situation better than you, to him would I have given it. There are no thanks due to me for it.
Page 227 - But the perverseness of a mean and narrow intellect are like the excrescences that grow upon a body naturally cold and dark : no fire to waste them, and no ray to enlighten, they assimilate and coalesce with those qualities so congenial to their nature, and acquire an incorrigible permanency in the Union with kindred frost and kindred opacity.