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Henry Fielding. (1707–1754) 3971 Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things? Tom Jones. Book iv. Chap. iv. 3972 Distinction without a difference. Tom Jones. Book vi. Chap. xiii. 3973 Amiable weakness. 1 Tom Jones. Book x. Chap. viii. 3974 The dignity of history. 2 Tom Jones. Book xi. Chap. ii. 3975 Republic of letters. Tom Jones. Book xiv. Chap. i. 3976 Illustrious predecessors. 3 Covent Garden Journal. Jan. 11, 1752. William Pitt, Earl of Chatham. (1708–1778) 3977 Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom. Speech, Jan. 14, 1766. 3978 A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself. 4 Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770. 3979 Where law ends, tyranny begins. Case of Wilkes. Speech, Jan. 9, 1770. 3980 Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations. 5 Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770. 3981 If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms,—never! never! never! Speech, Nov. 18, 1777.
Note 1. Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap xiv. [back ]Note 2. Quotation 2 . [back ]Note 3. Edmund Burke : The Present Discontents. Inaugural Address , March 4, 1837.back ]Note 4. back ]Note 5. Memoir of Fox, vol. iii. p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland. [back ]
