 | 1771 - 742 pàgines
...have been equally facrificed. I neither underftand the diiHnction, nor what ule the minil'ry propofe to make of it. The king's honour is that of his people. Their real honour and intereft !ire the fame. — I am n;it contending for avain punctilio. A clear, unblemiflied cha 6 -... | |
 | 1874 - 866 pàgines
...when he declared, in the sonorous wordings which were proper to him : " Private credit is wealth j public honour is security ; the feather that adorns the royal bird supports his flight ; strip him of liis plumage and you pin him to the earth." These grand talkings, however,... | |
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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... 
