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Edmund Burke.
had never spoke to each other in their lives ; until they foundthemselves , they knew not how , pigg ing together , heads and points , in the same truckle-bed . ' *
OF CHARLES TOWNSIIENO . 'HE worshipped , ' said Burke , ' that goddess ( Fame ) wheresoever she appeared ; but paid his particular devotion to lur in her favourite habitation , in her chosen temple , —in the House of Commons . Perhaps there never arose a man in this country of a rrr : re pointed and finished wit , and ( where his passions wete not concerned ) of a more refined , exstock
quisite , and penetrating judgment : ' If he had not so great a , as some who flourished formerly , of knowledge long treasured up , he knew , by far better than any man I am acquainted > vi : n . how to bring together , within a short time , all that w s necessary to establish , to illustrate , and to decorate that side of the question which he supported . He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully . Ht- parlanation and lav of his
ticularly excelled in the most luminous exp disp subjects . His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar , nor subtile and abstruse . He hitthe house between wind aud water . Not beino- troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter m question , he was never more tedious and more earnest , than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required , to whom he was always in peri ' eft unison . He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide , because he was always sure to follow . '
GOVERNMENT . ' INSTEAD , ' he savs , ' of troubling our understandings with speculations concerning the unity of empire , and the identity or distinction of leo-i-Iative powers , it was our duty , in all soberness , to conform our government to the character and circumstances ol the several le who composed the mi hty and strangely diversified mass . 1
peop g never was wild enough to conceive , that one method would serve for the whole ; that the natives of Hindustan and those of Virginia cou . d be ordered in the same manner ; or that the Cutchery court and the grand jury of Salem could be regulated on a similar plan . I was _ peisuaded that government was a practical thing , made for the happiness of mankind ; and not to furnish out a spectacle of uniformity , to gratify
the schemes of visionary politicians . UNLIMITED MONARCHY . MR . HU . ! , ' he says , ' will not be singular in telling us , that the felicity of mankind is no more disturbed by it ( absolute power ) than by earthquakes or thunder , or the other more unusual accidents of nature . '
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Edmund Burke.
had never spoke to each other in their lives ; until they foundthemselves , they knew not how , pigg ing together , heads and points , in the same truckle-bed . ' *
OF CHARLES TOWNSIIENO . 'HE worshipped , ' said Burke , ' that goddess ( Fame ) wheresoever she appeared ; but paid his particular devotion to lur in her favourite habitation , in her chosen temple , —in the House of Commons . Perhaps there never arose a man in this country of a rrr : re pointed and finished wit , and ( where his passions wete not concerned ) of a more refined , exstock
quisite , and penetrating judgment : ' If he had not so great a , as some who flourished formerly , of knowledge long treasured up , he knew , by far better than any man I am acquainted > vi : n . how to bring together , within a short time , all that w s necessary to establish , to illustrate , and to decorate that side of the question which he supported . He stated his matter skilfully and powerfully . Ht- parlanation and lav of his
ticularly excelled in the most luminous exp disp subjects . His style of argument was neither trite and vulgar , nor subtile and abstruse . He hitthe house between wind aud water . Not beino- troubled with too anxious a zeal for any matter m question , he was never more tedious and more earnest , than the preconceived opinions and present temper of his hearers required , to whom he was always in peri ' eft unison . He conformed exactly to the temper of the house ; and he seemed to guide , because he was always sure to follow . '
GOVERNMENT . ' INSTEAD , ' he savs , ' of troubling our understandings with speculations concerning the unity of empire , and the identity or distinction of leo-i-Iative powers , it was our duty , in all soberness , to conform our government to the character and circumstances ol the several le who composed the mi hty and strangely diversified mass . 1
peop g never was wild enough to conceive , that one method would serve for the whole ; that the natives of Hindustan and those of Virginia cou . d be ordered in the same manner ; or that the Cutchery court and the grand jury of Salem could be regulated on a similar plan . I was _ peisuaded that government was a practical thing , made for the happiness of mankind ; and not to furnish out a spectacle of uniformity , to gratify
the schemes of visionary politicians . UNLIMITED MONARCHY . MR . HU . ! , ' he says , ' will not be singular in telling us , that the felicity of mankind is no more disturbed by it ( absolute power ) than by earthquakes or thunder , or the other more unusual accidents of nature . '