The Stuarts have found few apologists, for the dead cannot pay for praise; and who will, without reward, oppose the tide of popularity?

I trust, that your admission to which I have just referred, will have no small effect to prevent the Northern apologist for slavery from repeating the remark that the South would gladly liberate her slaves, if she saw any prospect of bettering the condition of the objects of her tender and solicitous benevolence.

LUXURY, dread of it visionary, ii. 169-170; money better spent on it than in almsgiving, iii. 56, 291; no nation ever hurt by it, ii. 217-9; produces much good, iii. 55; querulous declamations against it, iii. 226; every society as luxurious as it can be, iii. 282; man not diminished in size by it, v. 358; reaches very few, ii. 218; Wesley attacks its apologists, iii. 56, n. 2. Lyce, To, i. 178.

In the mean time, since it is at least as expedient for me to vindicate, as for others to accuse those of whose conduct neither they nor I have yet any regular cognizance, and I may justly expect from the candour of your lordships, that you will be no less willing to hear an apologist than a censurer, I will venture to suspend the true question a few moments, to justify that conduct which has been so wantonly

Virtue's a pretty thing to make a show: Did ever mortal write like Rochefoucauld? Thus pleads the Devil's fair apologist, And, pleading, safely enters on his list.

In these words your Chancellor blundered out a truth which has for ever silenced all your apologists for the crime.