Download or read book The Letters of Junius, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint) written by Junius Junius and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-19 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Letters of Junius, Vol. 1 Lowther, son-in-law of lord Bute, upon the plea that these lands, which formerly belonged to the crown, had not been duly specified in King William's grant of them to the Port land family; and that hence, although they had been in the Portland family for nearly seventy years, they of right he longed to the crown still. The letters signed Atticus and Brutus relate chie y to the growing disputes with the Ameri can colonies: and those subscribed Lucius exclusively to the outrageous dismission of Sir Jeffery Amherst from his post of governor of Virginia. The name of Mnemon was, perhaps, taken up at hazard. That of Atticus was unquestionably assumed from the author's own opinion of the purity of his style, an opinion in which the public universally concurred; and the three remaining signa tures of Lucius, J unius, and Brutus were obviously deduced from a veneration for the memory of the celebrated Roman patriot, who united these three names in his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."