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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
ham was appointed Minister , and Burke began to devote his great talents to the public service . He was now chosen member for Vv endover , and made Secretary to the Marquis . He took a wide view of the question of American taxation , and formed a conclusion , that it was not consistent with the Constitution of Britain , that any of her subjects should be taxed but bv themselves or their representatives . This was his grand princile " to which he
p , resorted , whenever American affairs were the subject of discussion , and which he applied to whatever motion , relative to them , was brought before-Parliament . He uniformly , indeed , shewed himself impressed with the deepest sense of the excellence of the British Constitution , making the preservation of our whole polity his great care , though he varied the means according to circumstances . To preserve
the whole , he endeavoured to prevent any one part from ovei bearingthe rest ; supporting the popular , the aristocratical ,-: r monarchical parts , accoiding as either of them appeared likely to be overpowered . On questions concerning measures of particular operation , and on questions concerning the conduct of particular men , he sometimes might be hurried into mere party plans , or narrow opinions ; but when the subject affected the Constitution , his views were enlarged ,
and his counsels patriotic . When , in tlie case of the . Middlesex election , the House of Commons hnd exerted a power of declaring eligibitiiy , finding no statute , no applicable precedent to justifv their proceedings , he censured their conduct as unconstitutional , and joined in respectfully petitioning- his Majesty to call a new Parliament ; but still more reprobated the violence and licentiousness of certain dernocratical petitions on the same subject . He never associated with
any of the abettors of popular violence . He spoke with great indignation of inflammatory publications . His principal publications , during the Grafton Administration , were 1 A Vindication of the Rockingham Ministry , ' and ' Thoughts on the present Discontents , ' soon after the expulsion of Wilkes . The celebrated Letters of Junius were also at the time imputedby many ,
, to Burke . We think , that an attentive examination of Junius and of the avowed writings of Burke will convince a judicious reader , that either he did not write Junius , or wrote very differently from his usual mode . Junius has more closeness and less abundance of materials , more ' pungency and less force and variety of argument , than Burke . Junius has more perspicacity than expansion : rapidly penetrating into
particular cases and characters , ' he does not rise to Burke ' s genera- * lization . In closeness of reasoning , and neatness of language , Junius resembles Lord George Germaine , but surpasses the usual acuteness and force of that nobleman .
Burke received io , oool . from the Marquis of Rockingham , with which he purchased a villa near Beaconsfield , on the road through Uxbridge to Oxford . He opposed the various measures of the Ministry for laying taxes on America , on the same principle that he had disapproved of
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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
ham was appointed Minister , and Burke began to devote his great talents to the public service . He was now chosen member for Vv endover , and made Secretary to the Marquis . He took a wide view of the question of American taxation , and formed a conclusion , that it was not consistent with the Constitution of Britain , that any of her subjects should be taxed but bv themselves or their representatives . This was his grand princile " to which he
p , resorted , whenever American affairs were the subject of discussion , and which he applied to whatever motion , relative to them , was brought before-Parliament . He uniformly , indeed , shewed himself impressed with the deepest sense of the excellence of the British Constitution , making the preservation of our whole polity his great care , though he varied the means according to circumstances . To preserve
the whole , he endeavoured to prevent any one part from ovei bearingthe rest ; supporting the popular , the aristocratical ,-: r monarchical parts , accoiding as either of them appeared likely to be overpowered . On questions concerning measures of particular operation , and on questions concerning the conduct of particular men , he sometimes might be hurried into mere party plans , or narrow opinions ; but when the subject affected the Constitution , his views were enlarged ,
and his counsels patriotic . When , in tlie case of the . Middlesex election , the House of Commons hnd exerted a power of declaring eligibitiiy , finding no statute , no applicable precedent to justifv their proceedings , he censured their conduct as unconstitutional , and joined in respectfully petitioning- his Majesty to call a new Parliament ; but still more reprobated the violence and licentiousness of certain dernocratical petitions on the same subject . He never associated with
any of the abettors of popular violence . He spoke with great indignation of inflammatory publications . His principal publications , during the Grafton Administration , were 1 A Vindication of the Rockingham Ministry , ' and ' Thoughts on the present Discontents , ' soon after the expulsion of Wilkes . The celebrated Letters of Junius were also at the time imputedby many ,
, to Burke . We think , that an attentive examination of Junius and of the avowed writings of Burke will convince a judicious reader , that either he did not write Junius , or wrote very differently from his usual mode . Junius has more closeness and less abundance of materials , more ' pungency and less force and variety of argument , than Burke . Junius has more perspicacity than expansion : rapidly penetrating into
particular cases and characters , ' he does not rise to Burke ' s genera- * lization . In closeness of reasoning , and neatness of language , Junius resembles Lord George Germaine , but surpasses the usual acuteness and force of that nobleman .
Burke received io , oool . from the Marquis of Rockingham , with which he purchased a villa near Beaconsfield , on the road through Uxbridge to Oxford . He opposed the various measures of the Ministry for laying taxes on America , on the same principle that he had disapproved of