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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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LONDON: Article 2
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THE LIFE OF DAVID GARRICK, ESQ. Article 4
SlNGULAR CUSTOM IN DEVONSHIRE. Article 9
WEST INDIA CRUELTY. Article 9
A REVIEW OF THE LIFE AND WRITINGS OF THE RIGHT HONOURABLE EDMUND BURKE. Article 10
HISTORY OF THE SCIENCES FOR 1797. Article 16
DESCRIPTION OF THE PEAK OF TENERIFFE. Article 18
ON THE PECULIAR EXCELLENCIES OF HANDEL'S MUSIC. Article 20
THE COLLECTOR. Article 22
THE FREEMASONS' REPOSITORY. Article 27
ON THE MASONIC CHARACTER. Article 35
A VINDICATION OF MASONRY. Article 37
REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Article 42
POETRY. Article 50
REPORT OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH PARLIAMENT. Article 54
HOUSE OF COMMONS. Article 55
MONTHLY CHRONICLE. Article 62
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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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