 ... for their descendants to be vicious in the extreme, without being degenerate. Those of your grace, for instance, left no distressing examples of virtue, even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree,...  The Letters of Junius - Page 81by Junius - 1821Full view - About this book
 | Monthly literary register - 1811 - 766 pages
...memory of his sovereign, his country, and himself." In letter l!i he bitterly remarks as follows: " You have better proofs of your descent, my lord, than,...hereditary strokes of character, by which a family may he as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First liwd and... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1797 - 402 pages
...even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...hereditary strokes of character by which a family may be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1804 - 494 pages
...to their legitimate posterity ; and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has ' not left a single good quality...hereditary strokes of character, by which a family may.be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First You... | |
 | Junius (pseud.) - Great Britain - 1804 - 450 pages
...to their legitimate posterity ; and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...There are some hereditary strokes of character, by wliich a family may be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1804 - 472 pages
...to their legitimate posterity ; and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...proofs of your descent, my Lord, than the register of a mairiage, or a:iy troublesome inheritance of reputation. There are some hereditary strokes of character,... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1805 - 320 pages
...even to their legitimate posterity, and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...hereditary strokes of character by which a family may be as clearly distinguished as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1807 - 336 pages
...to their legitimate posterity ; and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...upbraid you. You have better proofs of your descent, my ! ord, than the register of a marriage, or any troublesome inheritance of reputation. There are some... | |
 | Junius - English letters - 1807 - 392 pages
...to their legitimate posterity : and you may look hack with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality upon record to iusult or uphraid yoo. You have hetter proofs of your descent, my Lord, than the register of a marriage,... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1809 - 364 pages
...to their legitimate posterity : and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...strokes of character, by which a family may be as clearly distinguished, as by the blackest features of the human face. Charles the First lived and died... | |
 | Junius - Great Britain - 1810 - 308 pages
...even to their legitimate posterity; and you may look back with pleasure to an illustrious pedigree, in which heraldry has not left a single good quality...strokes of character, by which a family 'may be as clearly distinguished, as by the blackest features of tbe human face. Charles the First lived and died... | |
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