The Letters Of Junius An Essay Upon The Authorship Of These Remarkable Compositions

Author : B. F. Underwood
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ISBN 13 : 9781330624623
Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book The Letters of Junius written by B. F. Underwood and published by . This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Letters of Junius: An Essay Upon the Authorship of These Remarkable Compositions With Original Letters From Jurists, Statesmen and Scholars Of all the persons whom different writers have attempted to prove the author of these letters, there is only one who, it has not been abundantly shown, could not have been identical with Junius. That one is Sir Philip Francis. For nearly half a century the acutest minds of England have inclined strongly to the opinion that the Franciscan theory is the correct one. A curiously combined chain of affirmative testimony seems to lead directly to Francis, while the absence of negative testimony arising out of the character, opinions, habits and connections of Francis to break any link in this long chain of affirmative evidence, goes to strengthen the latter. Lord Brougham in an article published in 1817, gives extracts from a speech delivered by Francis in 1797, and remprks: "We humbly conceive that the most careless reader must be struck, not only with the general ability and eloquence of these passages, but with their extraordinary coincidence with the letters of Junius in all their most remarkable characteristics - the boldness and even fierceness of the tone - the studied force and energy of the diction - the pointed and epigrammatic cast of the style - the concise and frequent metaphors - the mixture of the language of business and affairs, with a certain scholastic elegance and elaborate sarcasm." The following epitome of Brougham's reasoning is given from the preface to Woodfall's edition of Junius: "1. He finds that the dates of the Junian letters exactly tally with Francis's residence in this country and his going abroad. 2. Francis was a clerk in the War office, and Junius exhibits an intimate acquaintance with the business and persons of that department. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.