Junius Unmasked Part 8

_Paine._

Alas!

I thank G.o.d!

For G.o.d's sake!

In the name of Heaven!

Good G.o.d!

Good Heavens!

I pray G.o.d!

_Junius._

But, alas!

I thank G.o.d!

Would to G.o.d!

In G.o.d's name!

May G.o.d protect me!

I appeal to G.o.d for my sincerity!

I pray G.o.d!

The expression, "I thank G.o.d!" is the most frequent with both. As this is not common with writers, the parallel is a strong one. But to continue:

_Paine._

"Every political physician will advise a different medicine."--Common Sense.

_Junius._

"It is not the disorder, but the physician--it is the pernicious hand of government."--Let. 1.

"Why is the nation sickly?"

"Infuse a portion of new health into the const.i.tution."--Let. 68.

"Like a prodigal lingering in habitual consumption, you feel the relics of life, and mistake them for recovery."--Address to English people.

"No man regards an eruption on the surface when the n.o.ble parts are invaded and he feels a mortification approaching the heart."--Let. 39.

"These are the times that try men's souls."--Crisis, i.

"These are not the times to admit of any relaxation in the little discipline we have left."

The const.i.tuents "making a rod for themselves."

"Under the rod of the const.i.tuent."

Speaking of Abbe Raynal's work, he calls it a "_performance_."--Letter to.

Speaking of M. de Lolme's Essay on Government, he calls it a "_performance_."--Preface.

"At stake." This expression is very frequent.

"At stake." This expression is very frequent.

"In one view." Quite frequent.

"In one view." Quite frequent.

"The time is not very distant."

"The period is not very distant."

"The simple voice of nature and reason will say it is right."

"The voice of truth and reason must be silent."

"Where nature hath given the one she hath withheld the other."

"Nature has been sparing of her gifts to this n.o.ble lord."

"For as the greater weight will always carry up the less, and all the wheels of a machine are put in motion by one, it only remains to know which power in the const.i.tution has most weight."

"We incline the balance as effectually by lessening the weight in the one scale as by increasing it in the other."

"You would fain be thought to take no share in government, while in reality you are the mainspring of the machine."

"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly of hereditary right in kings is that _nature disapproves it_, otherwise she would not so frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind an a.s.s for a lion."

"It is you, Sir William, who make your friend appear awkward and ridiculous, by giving him a laced suit of tawdry qualifications which _nature never intended_ him to wear."

In the last metaphor nature personified is brought forward as the actor, by turning to ridicule the vanity of man in a.s.suming more than he is.

Junius, without expressing it in words, has put forward the fable of the a.s.s in a lion's skin, when speaking of Lord Granby's courage. But Mr.

Paine has applied the same fable to the king. The figures are differently expressed but exactly the same.

_Paine._

"Like wasting an estate on a suit at law to regulate the trespa.s.ses of a tenant, whose lease is just expiring."

_Junius._

"Like broken tenants who have had warning to quit the premises, they curse their landlord, destroy the fixtures, throw every thing into confusion, and care not what mischief they do the estate."

The above is the same figure, but differently applied. This figure is quite often used by Mr. Paine and Junius.

_Paine._

"Quitting this cla.s.s of men, I turn with the warm ardor of a friend, to those who have n.o.bly stood and are yet determined to stand the matter out. I call not upon a few, but upon all, up and help us; lay your shoulders to the wheel."--Crisis, i.

_Junius._