History of the Life and Times of Edmund Burke, Volume 1Chapman and Hall, 1858 |
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Page 222 - CLUB subsists; but we have the loss of Burke's company since he has been engaged in public business, in which he has gained more reputation than perhaps any man at his [first] appearance ever gained before. He made two speeches in the House for repealing the Stamp-act, which were publicly commended by Mr. Pitt, and have filled the town with wonder, " Burke is a great man by nature, and is expected soon to attain civil greatness.
Page 64 - ... in despair, though he returned to it again when a more confirmed age and a strong desire of knowledge enabled him to wrestle with every difficulty.
Page 336 - ended the fifth act of this tragi-comedy ! — a tragi-comedy acted by his Majesty's servants, at the desire of several persons of quality, for the benefit of Mr. Wilkes and at the expense of the Constitution...
Page 12 - no matter how that was said ; but whoever relishes, and reads Spenser as he ought to be read, will have a strong hold of the English language.
Page 470 - ... equally salutary in any quantities, at any depths ? Or that, though it may be useful to diffuse one of these agents as extensively as may be in the earth, that therefore it will be equally useful to render the earth in the same degree pervious to all ? It is a dangerous way of reasoning in physics, as well as morals, to conclude, because a given proportion of anything is advantageous, that the double will be quite as good, or that it will be good at all. Neither in the one nor the other is it...
Page 203 - He was probably the common friend whom Burke afterwards spoke of as introducing him to the Prime Minister, and who, next to William Burke, had the chief share in promoting this auspicious union. " You know and love him," says Burke to Garrick, " but I can assure you, until we can talk some late matters over, you, even you, can have no adequate idea of the worth of that man."* Fitzherbert is well known to all the readers of Boswell and Mrs.
Page 478 - I received your letter at the proper time, but delayed my answer to it until I had twice consulted my pillow. Surely, my situation is a little vexatious, and not a little singular. I am, it seems, called upon to disown the libels in which I am myself satirized as well as others. If I give no denial, things are fixed upon me which are not, on many accounts, very honourable to me. If I deny, it seems to be giving satisfaction to those to whom I owe none and intend none. In this perplexity all I can...
Page 225 - They who knew how amiable Burke was in his private life, and how warm and tender was the heart within, might expect to see these softer qualities depicted on his countenance. But they would have been disappointed. It was not usual at any time to see his face mantling with smiles; he decidedly looked like a great man, but not like a meek or gentle one. All his troubles were impressed on his working features, and gave them a somewhat severe expression, which deepened as he advanced in years, until...
Page 396 - I remember to have seen this knavish letter at the time. The pamphlet is itself, by anticipation, an answer to that grand artificer of fraud. He Avould not like it.
Page 326 - If you have not a party among two millions of people, " you must either change your plan of government or " renounce your Colonies for ever.