...wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Junius, he said : — " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of writing those letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me. The case would be different had I asked him...

...wrote concerning the Junius controversy, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I knew no man but Burke who is capable of writing these '...different had I asked him if he was the author ; a man so questioned as to anonymous publication may think he has a right to deny it." Sir Walter Scott, when...

...occasions, the truest." Dr. Johnson, who had entered the lists against Junius, told Boswell : " I. should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...letters ; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me." Burke told Reynolds that he knew Junius, and uniformly spoke of him as he would hardly have spoken...

...Hamilton. Hamilton was most generally suspected.' Memoirs of George III, iii. 401. Johnson said, ' I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...letters, but Burke spontaneously denied it to me.' Life, iii. 376. Burke, writing on this subject to Charles Townshend on Oct. 17, 1771, says :— ' My...

...the -wonderful concealment of the author of the celebrated letters signed Juntus, he said, " I should so questioned, as to ад anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it." AGE 70] BOSWELL'S...

...wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed Junius ; he said, " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...have been different had I asked him if he was the authour ; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it."...

...author of the celebrated letters signed Jiinin.t ; he said, ' ] should have believed Burke to be Juuius, because I know no man but Burke who is capable of...different, had I asked him if he was the author ; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it.' He observed that...

...the wonderful concealment of the authour of the celebrated letters signed Junius ; he said, 'I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...spontaneously denied it to me. The case would have been 284 LONDON A HEAVEN UPON EARTH [1779 different had I asked him if he was the authour ; a man so questioned,...

...celebrated letters signed Junius ; he said, I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I kno\v no man but Burke who is capable of writing these letters...different, had I asked him if he was the author; a man so questioned, as to an anonymous publication, may think he has a right to deny it." He observed that...

...Dr. Johnson, who upon such a question may be accepted as a pretty good authority, says: " I should have believed Burke to be Junius, because I know no...letters; but Burke spontaneously denied it to me." Gibbon was never so much as suspected ! I venture to think that the foregoing passages go to prove...