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mph ! et , which will conclude with a fevv circumstances and observations , which I scarcely considered myself as entitled to introduce , so long as I felt myself as in some measure stating the case of the Faculty , but which it will not only be allowable in me , but
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Charles James Fox . ( Continued from p . 412 . ) 7 No durability in Peace . ( Dec . 5 . 1782 . ) THE honourable gentleman may talk of the durability of peace , said Mr . Fox , but I can never think
it wise to pay much regard to that prospect . The inconsistency , the weakness and the passions of human governments will in all time continue to tear asunder the bands of civil
concord ; arid no , gratification , no accession , no dismemberment of empire , no good fortune , no calamity , will induce kiftgs to sit down contented with what they have acquired or patient under their loss , but after a little
breathing tune they will again rise into outrage * offence and war . 8 . His Coalition with Lord North . ( Feb . 17 , 1783 . ) I now come , said Mr . Fox , to take notice of the most heinous charge of all . I am accused of having , formed a
junction with a noble person , whose principles I have been in the habit of opposing for the last seven years of my life . I do not think it at all incumbent on me to make any answer to this charge : first , because I do not think that the persons who have asked
the question , have any right to make the inquiry ; and secondly , because if any such junction was formed , I see do ground for arraignment in the Matter . That any such alliance has fc&en place , I can by no means aver . * hat I shall have the honour of
concurring with the noble lord in the blue ribbon on the present question is y certain 5 and if men of honour tJ * n meet on points of general national co ncern , I see no reason for calling jjuch a meeting an unnatural junction . * t is neither wise nor noble to keep up ammosities for ever . It is neither just ilor caudid to keep up animosity when
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incumbent upon me to bring forward , when speaking solely in my own name .- —I am , &c . JAjtfEs Myljte . College , ISth May , 1815 .
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the cause of it is no more * It is not in my nature to bear malice or to live in ill-will .. My friendships are perpetual , my enmities are not so . AmicituB sempiternce , inimicitice placabiles * i disdain to keep alive in my bosom the enmities which I may bear to men , when the cause of those enmities is no more .
When a man ceases to be what he was , when the opinions which made him obnoxious are changed , he then is no more my enemy but my friend . The American war was the cause of the enmity between the noble lord and myself . The American war and the American question is at an end . The
noble lord has profited from fatal experience . While that system was maintained , nothing could be more asunder than the noble lord and myself . But it is now no more ; and it is therefore wise and candid to put an end also to the ill-will , the animosity , the rancour and the feuds which it
occasioned . I am free to acknowledge , that when I was the friend of the noble lord in the blue ribbon , I found him open and sincere ; When the enemy , honourable and manly . I never had reason to say of the noble lord in the
blue ribbon , that he practised any of those little subterfuges , tricks and stratagems which I found in others ; any of those behind-hand and paltry manoeuvres which destroy confidence between human beings and , degrade the character of the statesman and the man .
9 . Mr . PitVs Motion for a Reform in Parliament . ( May 7 , 1783 . ) Mr . Secretary Fox rose , and remarked to the House , that he made no
doubt there were some persons present who would attribute what he said to lukewarmnessandnotto zeal ; however , regardless of their censure , he would freely deliver his sentiments , a , nd assure the House that he most heartily
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Charles James Fox . 474
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1815, page 471, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1763/page/7/
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