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Edmund Burke.
Jess a cook , in seasoning what he himself eats . ' Your definition , replied Burke , ' is good ; I now see the full force of the common proverb , ' there is reason in the roasting of eggs . ' BOSWELL afterwards speaking in the club of an intention he had of going to view the Isle of Man , Burke repeated Pope ' s words : ' The proper study of mankind is Man . '
TOLERATION . ' THE want of toleration has lessened the number of believers ; I would have all pcotestants united , that we may be the better able to make a common cause against Infidels . The church of England has not a firmer friend than myself . I wish her head may reach that heaven , to which she . would condnCt us ; but I would also wish her
family as numerous as possible . I would have her with wide extended arms receive every believer , not with unnatural austerity reproach her offspring , and drive them fo seek ease , pleasure , and comfort , in the harlot lap of Infidelity . ' GOOD MONK .
' TRIA faciunl monachum . Bene loqui de superior ? . Legere bre--viarhtm taliter qualiter , et sinere res vadere vt vadunt : ' which , applying to a member , he translated so— 'Speak well ofthe Minister ; read the lesson he sets you ; and let the state take care of itself . ' CHARACTER OF LORD CHATHAM .
' THE venerable age of this great man , his merited rank , his superior eloquence , his splendid qualities , his eminent services , the vast space he fills in the eye of mankind , and , more than all the rest , his fall from power , which , like death , canonizes and sanCtifies a great character , will not suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . But what I do not presume to censure , I may have leave to lament . For a wise man , he seemed to me , at that time , to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and , I hope , without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowinc from an oninion
not the most indulgent to our unhappy species , and surely a little too general , led him into measures that were greatly mischievous to himself ; and for that reason , among others , perhaps fatal to his country ; measures , the elfeCts of which , 1 am afraid , are for ever incurable . He made an administration , so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery , so crossly indented and whimsicall y dovetailed
; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement—here a bit of black stone , and there a bit of white—patriots and courtiers ; Kings , friends , and republicans ; Whigs and'Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies;— ' . hat it was indeed a very curious shew , but utterl y unsafe to touchand unsure to stand on The colleagues whom he
, . ' '• id assorted at the same boards stared at each other , and were obliged to ask , ' Sir , your name?—Sir , you have the advantage of me . —Mr . ^ uch-a-one , —I beg a thousand pardons . ' I venture to say , it did so '' -ppen , that persons had a single oflice divided between them , who
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Edmund Burke.
Jess a cook , in seasoning what he himself eats . ' Your definition , replied Burke , ' is good ; I now see the full force of the common proverb , ' there is reason in the roasting of eggs . ' BOSWELL afterwards speaking in the club of an intention he had of going to view the Isle of Man , Burke repeated Pope ' s words : ' The proper study of mankind is Man . '
TOLERATION . ' THE want of toleration has lessened the number of believers ; I would have all pcotestants united , that we may be the better able to make a common cause against Infidels . The church of England has not a firmer friend than myself . I wish her head may reach that heaven , to which she . would condnCt us ; but I would also wish her
family as numerous as possible . I would have her with wide extended arms receive every believer , not with unnatural austerity reproach her offspring , and drive them fo seek ease , pleasure , and comfort , in the harlot lap of Infidelity . ' GOOD MONK .
' TRIA faciunl monachum . Bene loqui de superior ? . Legere bre--viarhtm taliter qualiter , et sinere res vadere vt vadunt : ' which , applying to a member , he translated so— 'Speak well ofthe Minister ; read the lesson he sets you ; and let the state take care of itself . ' CHARACTER OF LORD CHATHAM .
' THE venerable age of this great man , his merited rank , his superior eloquence , his splendid qualities , his eminent services , the vast space he fills in the eye of mankind , and , more than all the rest , his fall from power , which , like death , canonizes and sanCtifies a great character , will not suffer me to censure any part of his conduct . But what I do not presume to censure , I may have leave to lament . For a wise man , he seemed to me , at that time , to be governed too much by general maxims . I speak with the freedom of history , and , I hope , without offence . One or two of these maxims , flowinc from an oninion
not the most indulgent to our unhappy species , and surely a little too general , led him into measures that were greatly mischievous to himself ; and for that reason , among others , perhaps fatal to his country ; measures , the elfeCts of which , 1 am afraid , are for ever incurable . He made an administration , so chequered and speckled ; he put together a piece of joinery , so crossly indented and whimsicall y dovetailed
; a cabinet so variously inlaid ; such a piece of diversified mosaic ; such a tesselated pavement without cement—here a bit of black stone , and there a bit of white—patriots and courtiers ; Kings , friends , and republicans ; Whigs and'Tories ; treacherous friends and open enemies;— ' . hat it was indeed a very curious shew , but utterl y unsafe to touchand unsure to stand on The colleagues whom he
, . ' '• id assorted at the same boards stared at each other , and were obliged to ask , ' Sir , your name?—Sir , you have the advantage of me . —Mr . ^ uch-a-one , —I beg a thousand pardons . ' I venture to say , it did so '' -ppen , that persons had a single oflice divided between them , who