mmon to both
Mr. Paine and Junius, but so prominent that it attracts attention at
once.

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It is frequently the case with Mr. Paine and Junius that "_language
fails_," that is, it is poured forth in such torrents of abuse that the
reader is made painfully aware of it, and to recapture the mind of the
reader, they artfully charge it to the impossibility of doing justice to
so bad a subject. For example:

_Paine._

"There are cases that can not be overdone by
language, and this is one."--Crisis, i.

"There is not in the compass of language a
sufficiency of words to express the baseness of
your king, his ministry, and his army. They have
refined upon villainy till it wants a name. To the
fiercer vices of former ages they have added the
dregs and scummings of the most finished
rascality, and are so completely sunk in
serpentine deceit that there is not left among
them one generous enemy."--Crisis, v.

_Junius._

"But this language is too mild for the occasion.
The king is determined that our abilities shall
not be lost to society."--Let. 48.

"Our language has no terms of reproach, the mind
has no idea of detestation, which has not already
been happily applied to you and exhausted. Ample
justice has been done, by abler pens than mine, to
the separate merits of your life and character.
Let it be my humble office to collect the
scattered sweets till their united virtue tortures
the sense."--Let. 41.

"We sometimes experience sensations to which
language is not equal. The conception is too bulky
to be born alive, and in the torture of thinking
we stand dumb. Our feelings imprisoned by their
magnitude, find no way out, and in the struggle of
expression every finger tries to be a tongue. The
machinery of the body seems too little for the
mind, and we look about us for help to show our
thoughts by. Such must be the sensation of America
whenever Britain teeming with corruption shall
propose to her to sacrifice her faith."--Crisis,
xii.

"In what language shall I address so black, so
cowardly a tyrant. Thou worse than one of the
Brunswicks and all the Stuart