THE WORKS OF VICESIMUS KNOX, D.D. WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE. IN SEVEN VOLUMES. VOL. V. LONDON: PRINTED FOR J. MAWMAN, LUDGATE STREET, MDCCCXXIV. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES JAMES FOX. SIR, WHEN I think of Personal Nobility, the title of my book, I am led, by a very natural association of ideas, to think of you. The noble stand you lately made in favour of peace and liberty, when popular clamour_the "civium ardor prava jubentium”—would have drowned the voice of a less able advocate, when your standard was deserted by many who shrunk from your side in the hour of danger, has placed your name higher than it ever yet stood, among independent Englishmen, in the middle ranks, who neither enjoy nor expect the favours of ministerial influence. If you have lost a few valuable friends within the walls, you have gained the esteem of tens of thousands on the outside, who, before this test, had no just idea of the purity and intrepidity of your public virtue. In search of a living example of eloquence, generosity, and unshaken perseverance in disinterested VOL. V. b |