"Spirit of prophecy." "Man of spirit." "Air of." "Strokes of." "Give color to." "Tranquillity of." "Narrow views." "But the great hinge on which the whole machine turned, is the _union of the States_."--Crisis, xv., note. "This is not the hinge on which the debate turns."--Let. 16. "Each individual feels his share of the wound given to the whole."--Crisis, xii. "I consider nothing but the wound which has been given to the law."--Let. 30. "Thorn in the flesh." "Thorn in the king's side." "As the future ability of a giant over a dwarf is delineated in his features while an infant."--Crisis, xi. "The features of the infant are a proof of the descent."--Let. 58. "But from such opposition, the French revolution, instead of suffering, receives homage. The more it is struck, the more sparks it will emit."--Rights of Man, part i. "Hardly serious at first, he is now an enthusiast. The coldest bodies warm with opposition, the hardest sparkle in collision."--Let. 35. "He pities the plumage, but forgets the dying bird."--Do. "The feather which adorns the royal bird supports his flight. Strip him of his plumage, and you fix him to earth."--Let. 42. "The ripeness of the continent for independence." "When you are ripe, you shall be plucked."--Let. 66. "Had you studied true greatness of heart, _the first and fairest ornament of mankind_."--Crisis, vii. "But neither should I think the most exalted faculties of the human mind a gift worthy of the Divinity, nor any assistance in the improvement of them a subject of gratitude to my fellow-creatures, if I were not satisfied that really to inform the understanding, corrects and enlarges the heart."--Last sentence of Junius. [This shows a parallel also in the _estimation_ they place upon the human faculties, which is worth more in argument than any parallel of figure or expression.] "Wounded herself to the heart." "Stab you to the heart." "Unite in despising you." "United detestation." "We are not moved by the gloomy _smile_ of a worthless king."--Crisis, iv. "How far you are authorized to rely upon the sincerity of those _smiles_ which a pious court lavishes without reluctance upon a libertine by profession," etc.--Let. 15.