 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1829 - 618 páginas
...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 evident... | |
 | John Swinden - 1833 - 126 páginas
...: — " The King's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and real interest are the same. Private credit is wealth ; public honour is security....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 up passages... | |
 | Carl David Arfwedson - 1834 - 888 páginas
...find out the real property of an individual than in the United States of North America. CHAPTER XIV. 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. OF all the events that... | |
 | 1837 - 596 páginas
...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 of glowing... | |
 | 1852 - 618 páginas
...quoting this sentence subjoins the image of Junius, plainly suggested by it : — ' Prirate credit if 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 pamphlet, published twenty... | |
 | 1843 - 600 páginas
...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 springing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 páginas
...to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. efiance on the roving Indian power. Beneath, each...bold and promontory mound With embrasure embossed a his flight Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' Thus also he remarks — ' In the... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 páginas
...to an individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, of independence, and of safety. in his mind: H his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to the earth.' Thus also he remarks — ' In... | |
 | 1870 - 878 páginas
...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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...individual or to a community, it is the foundation of peace, j UNI us. 269 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. Injudiciousness of Prosecuting... | |
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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. 
