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Edmund Burke.
curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals , or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depth of dungeons , to plunge into the infection of hospitals , to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain , to take the gauge and dimensions of misery , depression , and contempt ; to remember the forgotten , to attend to the neglected , to visit the forsaken , and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries . PL ' s plan is original , and it is full of genius as it is of
humanity . It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity . Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country ; I hope he will anticipate his final reward , by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own . Pie will receive not by retail , but in gross , the reward of those who visit the prisoner : and he has so forestalled and monopolized this branch of charity ,, that there will be , I trust , little room to merit by such acts of benevolence hereafter . '
ILLNESS OF MR . FOX . ' No one laments Mr . Fox ' s illness more than I do ; and I declare , if he should continue ill , the inquiry into the conduct of the first Lord of the Admiralty ( Earl of Sandwich ) should not be proceeded upon ; and even should the country suffer so serious a calamity as his death , it ought to be followed up earnestly and solemnly ; nay , of
so much consequence is the inquiry to the public , that no bad use would be made ofthe skin of his departed friend , should such * be his fate , if , like that of John Zisca , it should be converted into a drum , and used for the purpose of sounding an alarm to the people of England . ' TOAST .
' ONE day , after dinner , the Prince , about to propose a bumper toast , asked Burke , if a toast-master was not absolute ? He instantly answered , " yes , Sir , jure de vino . '' " That is the only way , " replied his Royal Highness , " in which 1 should wish to be absolute . "
COMPARISON OF JOHNSON'S STYLE . 'BURKE , in speaking of any person , could very happily assume Iris style . A gentleman in company observing , that the language of Young resembled that of Johnson , Burke replied , " it may have the appearance , but has not the reality ; it possesses the nodosities ofthe oak , without its strength . " ON JOHNSON'S DEATH .
BURKE , in the ardour of his feeling for the loss of Johnson , uttered file following sentence : — ' He has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up , but which nothing has a tendency to fill up— - Minsrui is dead . Let us go to the next best . —There is nobody— - -N ' o man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . ' PEACE .
'PEACE , ' he observes , * implies reconciliation ; and where there "as been a mutual dispute , reconciliation always implies concession ° n some side . ' ' [ TO BE CONTINUED . ^ •' V ° L . XI . H h
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Edmund Burke.
curiosity of modern art ; not to collect medals , or collate manuscripts ; but to dive into the depth of dungeons , to plunge into the infection of hospitals , to survey the mansions of sorrow and pain , to take the gauge and dimensions of misery , depression , and contempt ; to remember the forgotten , to attend to the neglected , to visit the forsaken , and to compare and collate the distresses of all men in all countries . PL ' s plan is original , and it is full of genius as it is of
humanity . It was a voyage of discovery ; a circumnavigation of charity . Already the benefit of his labour is felt more or less in every country ; I hope he will anticipate his final reward , by seeing all its effects fully realized in his own . Pie will receive not by retail , but in gross , the reward of those who visit the prisoner : and he has so forestalled and monopolized this branch of charity ,, that there will be , I trust , little room to merit by such acts of benevolence hereafter . '
ILLNESS OF MR . FOX . ' No one laments Mr . Fox ' s illness more than I do ; and I declare , if he should continue ill , the inquiry into the conduct of the first Lord of the Admiralty ( Earl of Sandwich ) should not be proceeded upon ; and even should the country suffer so serious a calamity as his death , it ought to be followed up earnestly and solemnly ; nay , of
so much consequence is the inquiry to the public , that no bad use would be made ofthe skin of his departed friend , should such * be his fate , if , like that of John Zisca , it should be converted into a drum , and used for the purpose of sounding an alarm to the people of England . ' TOAST .
' ONE day , after dinner , the Prince , about to propose a bumper toast , asked Burke , if a toast-master was not absolute ? He instantly answered , " yes , Sir , jure de vino . '' " That is the only way , " replied his Royal Highness , " in which 1 should wish to be absolute . "
COMPARISON OF JOHNSON'S STYLE . 'BURKE , in speaking of any person , could very happily assume Iris style . A gentleman in company observing , that the language of Young resembled that of Johnson , Burke replied , " it may have the appearance , but has not the reality ; it possesses the nodosities ofthe oak , without its strength . " ON JOHNSON'S DEATH .
BURKE , in the ardour of his feeling for the loss of Johnson , uttered file following sentence : — ' He has made a chasm which not only nothing can fill up , but which nothing has a tendency to fill up— - Minsrui is dead . Let us go to the next best . —There is nobody— - -N ' o man can be said to put you in mind of Johnson . ' PEACE .
'PEACE , ' he observes , * implies reconciliation ; and where there "as been a mutual dispute , reconciliation always implies concession ° n some side . ' ' [ TO BE CONTINUED . ^ •' V ° L . XI . H h