proaching the heart."--Let. 39.

"These are the times that try men's
souls."--Crisis, i.

"These are not the times to admit of any
relaxation in the little discipline we have left."

The constituents "making a rod for themselves."

"Under the rod of the constituent."

Speaking of Abbe Raynal's work, he calls it a
"_performance_."--Letter to.

Speaking of M. de Lolme's Essay on Government, he
calls it a "_performance_."--Preface.

"At stake." This expression is very frequent.

"At stake." This expression is very frequent.

"In one view." Quite frequent.

"In one view." Quite frequent.

"The time is not very distant."

"The period is not very distant."

"The simple voice of nature and reason will say it
is right."

"The voice of truth and reason must be silent."

"Where nature hath given the one she hath withheld
the other."

"Nature has been sparing of her gifts to this
noble lord."

"For as the greater weight will always carry up
the less, and all the wheels of a machine are put
in motion by one, it only remains to know which
power in the constitution has most weight."

"We incline the balance as effectually by
lessening the weight in the one scale as by
increasing it in the other."

"You would fain be thought to take no share in
government, while in reality you are the
mainspring of the machine."

"One of the strongest natural proofs of the folly
of hereditary right in kings is that _nature
disapproves it_, otherwise she would not so
frequently turn it into ridicule by giving mankind
an ass for a lion."

"It is you, Sir William, who make your friend
appear awkward and ridiculous, by giving him a
laced suit of tawdry qualifications which _nature
never intended_ him to wear."

In the last metaphor nature personified is brought forward as the actor,
by turning to ridicule the vanity of man in assuming more than he is.
Junius, without expressing it in words, has put forward the fable of the
ass in a lion's skin, when speaking of Lord Granby's courage. But Mr.
Paine has applied the same fable to the k