Thoughts on the Late Transactions Respecting Falkland's IslandsT. Cadell, 1771 - 75 էջ |
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againſt almoſt Anfon's voyage anſwer armament aſked becauſe Britiſh Buccarelli Buenos Ayres Captain Hunt cauſe claim conceffion confidered conqueft danger declaration defign defire difavowal difcontent difputed dominions eaſily Engliſh captains English miniftry eſtabliſhed expected expedition expence faction fafe fafety Falkland's Iſland fame fatisfaction fays fecure fedition felves fent fettle fettlement fettlers fhould firſt fleet fome fometimes force fouthern fovereignty frigate ftationed ftrength fubjects fuch fuffer fufficient fuppofe fword garriſon governor of Port Grimaldi hoftile honour hope increaſe infolence infult injury Junius King of France King of Spain laft lefs leſs lofs Madrid Magellanick ment muſt Narborough nation neceffary niards obftinacy peace pleaſures poffeffion Port Egmont Port Solidad prefent Prince of Mafferan promiſed publick purpoſe queſtion reaſon refolution refufe refuſed remonftrance reparation reſtore ſhall ſhips ſhould Spaniards Spanish ſtate ſuch ſuppoſed thefe themſelves theſe theſe iſlands thofe thoſe tion uſe warning whofe whoſe
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Էջ 54 - Junius burst into notice with a blaze of impudence which has rarely glared upon the world before, and drew the rabble after him as a monster makes a show. When he had once provided for his safety by impenetrable secrecy, he had nothing to combat but truth and justice, enemies whom he knows to be feeble in the dark. Being then at liberty to indulge himself in all the immunities of invisibility; out of the reach of...
Էջ 43 - France and Spain, a very small part ever felt the stroke of an enemy; the rest languished in tents and ships, amidst damps and putrefaction; pale, torpid, spiritless and helpless; gasping and groaning, unpitied among men, made obdurate by long continuance of hopeless misery; and were at last whelmed in pits, or heaved into the ocean, without notice and without remembrance. By incommodious encampments and unwholesome stations, where courage is useless, and enterprise impracticable, fleets are silently...
Էջ 56 - Of style and sentiment they take no cognizance. They admire him for virtues like their own, for contempt of order and violence of outrage, for rage of defamation and audacity of falsehood.
Էջ 57 - ... are transitory passions. He will soon be more closely viewed or more attentively examined, and what folly has taken for a comet that from its flaming hair shook pestilence and war, inquiry will find to be only a meteor formed by the vapours of putrefying democracy, and kindled into flame by the effervescence of interest struggling with conviction ; which after having plunged its followers in a bog, will leave us inquiring why we regard it.
Էջ 55 - ... and drew the rabble after him as a monster makes a show. When he had once provided for his safety by impenetrable secrecy, he had nothing to combat but truth and justice, enemies whom he knows to be feeble in the dark. Being then at liberty to indulge himself in all the immunities of invisibility ; out of the reach of danger, he has been bold ; out of the reach of shame, he has been confident.
Էջ 44 - But at the conclusion of a ten years war, how are we recompensed for the death of multitudes and the expence of millions, but by contemplating the sudden glories of paymasters and agents, contractors and commissaries, whose equipages shine like meteors, and whose palaces rise like exhalations.
Էջ 54 - Junius has sometimes made his satire felt, but let not injudicious admiration mistake the venom of the shaft for the vigour of the bow. He has sometimes sported with lucky malice ; but to him that knows his company, • it is not hard to be sarcastic in a mask.
Էջ 56 - Let us abstract from his wit the vivacity of insolence, and withdraw from his efficacy the...
Էջ 44 - These are the men who, without virtue, labour, or hazard, are growing rich as their country is impoverished; they rejoice when obstinacy or ambition adds another year to slaughter and devastation; and laugh from their desks at bravery and science, while they are adding figure to figure, and cipher to cipher, hoping for a new contract from a new armament, and computing the profits of a siege or tempest.
Էջ 42 - Of the thoufands and ten thoufands that perimed in our late contefts with France and Spain, a very fmall part ever felt the ftroke of an enemy ; the reft languifhed in tents and fhips...