Interrupt me not--I question not your will to be both; but you have hitherto neither had the light nor the opportunity necessary for the display of your principles, or the service of your country.

You have lived when an apathy of mind, succeeding to the agitations of the Civil War, had made men indifferent to state affairs, and more willing to cultivate their own ease, than to stand in the gap when the Lord was pleading with Israel.

But we are Englishmen; and with us such unnatural lethargy cannot continue long.

Already, many of those who most desired the return of Charles Stewart, regard him as a King whom Heaven, importuned by our entreaties, gave to us in His anger.

His unlimited licence--and example so readily followed by the young and the gay around him--has disgusted the minds of all sober and thinking men.
I had not now held conference with you in this intimate fashion, were I not aware that you, Master Julian, were free from such stain of the times.