nder, and
forbearing. They have an energy peculiar to
themselves, and overlooking the accidental
attachment of natural affection apply with
infinite _softness_ to the first feelings of the
heart."

"With all his mother's _softness_."

[Mr. Paine argued against this title of "mother country" being applied
to England. And what is remarkable, Junius was never betrayed into it,
even with all his prejudice in favor of the English nation hanging about
him. In Letter 1, he speaks of England as having "alienated the colonies
from their natural affection to their _common_ country," and in no place
says parent or mother country. This fact is a striking parallel.]

"That men never turn rogues without turning fools,
is a maxim sooner or later universally
true."--Crisis, iii.

"There is a proverb concerning persons in the
predicament of this gentleman, 'They commence
dupes, and finish knaves.'"--Let. 49.

"The corrupt and abandoned court of Britain."

"Corruption glitters in the van, collects and
maintains a standing army of mercenaries."

"Trembling duplicity of a spaniel."

"In that state of abandoned servility and
prostitution." ... "The ministry, abandoned as
they are."

"Agony of a wounded mind."

"When the mind is tortured."

"Compound of reasons."

"Compound his ideas."

"Nothing but the sharpest essence of villainy
compounded with the strongest distillation of
folly, could have produced a _menstruum_ that
would have effected a separation."--Crisis, iii.

"He was forced to go through every division,
resolution, composition, and refinement of
political chemistry before he happily arrived at
the _caput mortuum_ of vitriol in your grace. Flat
and insipid in your retired state; but brought
into action you become vitriol again."--Let. 15.

In the above Mr. Paine applies this figure of political chemistry to the
causes which led to the separation of the colonies from England. Junius
is speaking to the Duke of Grafton. "_Menstruum_" and "_Caput mortuum_,"
are old chemical terms. The former means that which will dissolve, and
the latter the worthless matter which is left. They are both figures of
a