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Edmund Burke.
• whom , in the end , he may preserve the absolute necessaries of life . ' HUMOUR . THE following passages , quoted from Burke ' s speech on the expenditure of the King ' s household , shew the force and versatility of his humour : — ' Lord Talbot ' s scheme of ccconomy was
dashed to pieces ; his department became more expensive than ever- ; —the civil list debt accumulated . —Why ? It was truly from a cause , which , though perfectly adequate to the effect , one would not have instantly guessed;—it was- because the turnspit in the King's kitchen ivas a member of parliament . The King ' s domestic servants were all undone ; his tradesmen remained unpaid , and became bankrupt ;
—because the turnspit oj the King ' s kitchen ivas a member of parliament . His Majesty ' s slumbers were interrupted , his pillow was stuffed with thorns , and his peace of mind entirely broken;—because the King's turnspit was a member of parliament . The judges were unpaid ; the justice ofthe kingdom bent and gave way ; the foreign Ministers remained inactive and unprovided ; the system of Europe
was dissolved ; the chain of our alliances was broken ; all the wheels of government at home and abroad were , stopped ; because the King ' s turnspit was a member of parliament . '
' THF . household troops form an army , who will be ready to mutiny for want of pay , and whose mutiny will be really dreadful to a commander in chief . A rebellion of the thirteen Lords ofthe Bedchamber would be far more terrible to a Minister-, and would probably affect his power more to the quick , than a revolt of thirteen colonies . What an uproar such an event would create at court ! Want petitions ,
and committees , and associations would it not produce ! Bless me ! what a clattering of . white sticks and yellow sticks would be about his head I—what a storm of gold keys would liy about the ears of the Minister!—what a shower of Georges , and Thistles , and Medals , and Collars of S . S . would assail him at his first entrance into the antichamber , after an insolvent Christmas quarter ! A tumult which could not be anpeased by all the harmony of the new year ' s ode . '
INJUSTICE OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBTS . ' T IIF . end of all civil regulations is to secure private happiness from private malignity ; to keep individuals from the power of orre another : but this end " is apparently neglecled , when a man , irritated with loss , is allowed to be the judge of his own cause , and to assign the punishment of his own pain ; when the distinction between guilt and happiness , between casualty and design , is entrusted to eyes blind with interest , to understandings depraved by resentment . '
ENCOMIUM ON MB . HOWARD . 'I CANNOT name Mr . Howard without remarking , that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind . He has visited all Europe , not to survey the sumptuotisness of palaces , or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of tire remains of ancient grandeur , nor to form a scale of the
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Edmund Burke.
• whom , in the end , he may preserve the absolute necessaries of life . ' HUMOUR . THE following passages , quoted from Burke ' s speech on the expenditure of the King ' s household , shew the force and versatility of his humour : — ' Lord Talbot ' s scheme of ccconomy was
dashed to pieces ; his department became more expensive than ever- ; —the civil list debt accumulated . —Why ? It was truly from a cause , which , though perfectly adequate to the effect , one would not have instantly guessed;—it was- because the turnspit in the King's kitchen ivas a member of parliament . The King ' s domestic servants were all undone ; his tradesmen remained unpaid , and became bankrupt ;
—because the turnspit oj the King ' s kitchen ivas a member of parliament . His Majesty ' s slumbers were interrupted , his pillow was stuffed with thorns , and his peace of mind entirely broken;—because the King's turnspit was a member of parliament . The judges were unpaid ; the justice ofthe kingdom bent and gave way ; the foreign Ministers remained inactive and unprovided ; the system of Europe
was dissolved ; the chain of our alliances was broken ; all the wheels of government at home and abroad were , stopped ; because the King ' s turnspit was a member of parliament . '
' THF . household troops form an army , who will be ready to mutiny for want of pay , and whose mutiny will be really dreadful to a commander in chief . A rebellion of the thirteen Lords ofthe Bedchamber would be far more terrible to a Minister-, and would probably affect his power more to the quick , than a revolt of thirteen colonies . What an uproar such an event would create at court ! Want petitions ,
and committees , and associations would it not produce ! Bless me ! what a clattering of . white sticks and yellow sticks would be about his head I—what a storm of gold keys would liy about the ears of the Minister!—what a shower of Georges , and Thistles , and Medals , and Collars of S . S . would assail him at his first entrance into the antichamber , after an insolvent Christmas quarter ! A tumult which could not be anpeased by all the harmony of the new year ' s ode . '
INJUSTICE OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBTS . ' T IIF . end of all civil regulations is to secure private happiness from private malignity ; to keep individuals from the power of orre another : but this end " is apparently neglecled , when a man , irritated with loss , is allowed to be the judge of his own cause , and to assign the punishment of his own pain ; when the distinction between guilt and happiness , between casualty and design , is entrusted to eyes blind with interest , to understandings depraved by resentment . '
ENCOMIUM ON MB . HOWARD . 'I CANNOT name Mr . Howard without remarking , that his labours and writings have done much to open the eyes and hearts of mankind . He has visited all Europe , not to survey the sumptuotisness of palaces , or the stateliness of temples ; not to make accurate measurements of tire remains of ancient grandeur , nor to form a scale of the