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Edmund Burke.
road ot public conduct . Not that such impositions are strong enougn in themselves ; but a powerful interest , often concealed from those whom it affects , works at the bottom , and secures the operation . Men are thus debauched away from their legitimate connections—¦ gradually they are habituated to other company . Certain persons are no longer frig htful when they come to be serviceable . _ As to their old friends , the transition is easy—from friendship to civility ; from civility to enmity , few ave the steps from dereliction to persecution . '
RUST OF ANTIQUITY . ' SEVERAL gentlemen , ' he said , ' have expressed a kind of superstitious veneration for this power , on account of its supposed antiquity ; as the father of Scriblerus extolled the rust and canker which exalted a brazen pot-lid into the shield of a hero . 1 hope to scour off the false marks of antiquity which have made this power venerable , as efhonours ofthe
fectually as the honest house-maid scoured off the false pot-lid . ' NORTH RRITON , NO . 45 . 'NUMBER forty-five of the North Briton is a spiritless though virulent performance , a mere mixture of vinegar and water , at once sour and vapid . '
- " JUNIUS . ' How comes Junius to have broke through the cobwebs of the law , and to range uncontrouled and unpunished through the land ? The myrmidons of the Court pursue him in vain . They will not spend their time on me or you ; they disdain such vermin , when the mig hty boar of the forest , that has broke their toils , is before the blood cold
them . When I saw his attack upon King my run ; not , that there arc not in that composition many bold truths , by which a wise Prince mig ht profit : it was the rancour and venom with which 1 was struck . When I expected from his daring flight his fall and final ruin , I behold him soaring higher , and coming souse upon both houses of parliament ; nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow , Sir , * King , Lords , and Commons , are the sport of his fury . '
WIT . ' DR .. ROBERTSON - observed that Johnson ' s jokes were not the stabs of malevolence , but the rebukes of the rig hteous , which are like excellent oil , and break not Ihe head .- — Oil , ' replied Burke , ' oil of vitriol . ' BOSWELL telling him that he had seen at a Blue-Stocking Club a theirs
number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ( Johnson ) , and listening to his literature . ' Ay , ' said Burke , ' like maids round a May-pole . ' PUNS . ONE day Boswell , trying to make a definition of man , that would distinguish him from all other animals , calls him a ' cooking animal ;' —a m « n alone can dress a good dinner , and every man is mute C
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Edmund Burke.
road ot public conduct . Not that such impositions are strong enougn in themselves ; but a powerful interest , often concealed from those whom it affects , works at the bottom , and secures the operation . Men are thus debauched away from their legitimate connections—¦ gradually they are habituated to other company . Certain persons are no longer frig htful when they come to be serviceable . _ As to their old friends , the transition is easy—from friendship to civility ; from civility to enmity , few ave the steps from dereliction to persecution . '
RUST OF ANTIQUITY . ' SEVERAL gentlemen , ' he said , ' have expressed a kind of superstitious veneration for this power , on account of its supposed antiquity ; as the father of Scriblerus extolled the rust and canker which exalted a brazen pot-lid into the shield of a hero . 1 hope to scour off the false marks of antiquity which have made this power venerable , as efhonours ofthe
fectually as the honest house-maid scoured off the false pot-lid . ' NORTH RRITON , NO . 45 . 'NUMBER forty-five of the North Briton is a spiritless though virulent performance , a mere mixture of vinegar and water , at once sour and vapid . '
- " JUNIUS . ' How comes Junius to have broke through the cobwebs of the law , and to range uncontrouled and unpunished through the land ? The myrmidons of the Court pursue him in vain . They will not spend their time on me or you ; they disdain such vermin , when the mig hty boar of the forest , that has broke their toils , is before the blood cold
them . When I saw his attack upon King my run ; not , that there arc not in that composition many bold truths , by which a wise Prince mig ht profit : it was the rancour and venom with which 1 was struck . When I expected from his daring flight his fall and final ruin , I behold him soaring higher , and coming souse upon both houses of parliament ; nor has he dreaded the terrors of your brow , Sir , * King , Lords , and Commons , are the sport of his fury . '
WIT . ' DR .. ROBERTSON - observed that Johnson ' s jokes were not the stabs of malevolence , but the rebukes of the rig hteous , which are like excellent oil , and break not Ihe head .- — Oil , ' replied Burke , ' oil of vitriol . ' BOSWELL telling him that he had seen at a Blue-Stocking Club a theirs
number of ladies sitting round a worthy and tall friend of ( Johnson ) , and listening to his literature . ' Ay , ' said Burke , ' like maids round a May-pole . ' PUNS . ONE day Boswell , trying to make a definition of man , that would distinguish him from all other animals , calls him a ' cooking animal ;' —a m « n alone can dress a good dinner , and every man is mute C