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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
eager and strenuous advocate for war , after the French Aad invaded the Netherlands . His principal object was not satisfaction for an injury , or repression of ambition , but a change of mental operations . It was not because they had attacked our allies , or made conquests dangerous to ourselves , that he wished us to commence hostilities , but because the French had , in their own country , annihilated the constitutionwhich they had found or fancied oppressiveTo the
, . destruction of the new system were all his efforts directed . Every victory gained by us he estimated not by the addition it mi ght afford to our commercial advantages or political security , but its tendency to restore the old orders of France . This was the scope of his successive memorials and letters , and , above all , of the ' Thoughts on a Regicide Peace . ' Never had hein the produftions of his most
vi-, gorous years , displayed more force , rapidity , and versatility of intellectual powers , than in this child of his old age . Never did his genius exert itself more energetically , when the agent of Wisdom , than when the servant of Fancy , and Passion . That it is our dutv
to wage war with France FOR EVER , unless she shall restore the former orders , any impartial man , of plain common understanding , mustimmediatel y perceive to be absurd in theory , and ruinous in practice . ^ But , foratime , we forget the extravagance of the object , in the brilliancy of the images and the fertility of the invention ; in the ingenuity ofthe means , the imprafticability ofthe END .
Mr . Burke lost his only son in 1794 , and since that time he lived principally at Beaconsfield , where , as a private character , he was loved and revered in a most extraordinary degree . He was to the rich an agreeable , accommodating nei ghbour ; to the poor , a most wisely bountiful benefactor , and promoted contributions for their benefit , the advantages of which will be long feltIn relation of
do-. every mestic and social life his conduct was the result of tenderness , benevolence , and wisdom ; the deli ght of every one around him , from the labourer to the peer . He lived , with undecayed faculties , in tolerable health , till the beginning of 1797 , when he was seized with an illness , which , with several intermissions , and without . affecting his mind , continued to the last . He appeared neither to wish nor dread death .
He firml y believed in afuture state , and , from the calmness of his behaviour at the approach of death , showed , a conscience void of intentional offence . July 9 th he had been reading some of Addison ' s essays , in which he always took great deli ght . He had recommended himself , in many affectionate messages , to the remembrance of his absent ^ friends , and conversed , with his accustomed force of thought and expressionon the awful situation of his countryand had iven
, , oprivate directions with steady composure , when , as his attendants were carrying him to bed , he , without a groan , breathed his last . In talents and acquirements , no man of his country and age surpassed , scarcely any equalled , Bnrke . . His understanding , rapid , active , and powerful , penetrated through tlie . surface to the bottom of truth . His memory retained whatever it received . His comprehensive mind viewed its knowledge and thoughts in all their parts and relations . His discriminating judgment perceived the class to which
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
eager and strenuous advocate for war , after the French Aad invaded the Netherlands . His principal object was not satisfaction for an injury , or repression of ambition , but a change of mental operations . It was not because they had attacked our allies , or made conquests dangerous to ourselves , that he wished us to commence hostilities , but because the French had , in their own country , annihilated the constitutionwhich they had found or fancied oppressiveTo the
, . destruction of the new system were all his efforts directed . Every victory gained by us he estimated not by the addition it mi ght afford to our commercial advantages or political security , but its tendency to restore the old orders of France . This was the scope of his successive memorials and letters , and , above all , of the ' Thoughts on a Regicide Peace . ' Never had hein the produftions of his most
vi-, gorous years , displayed more force , rapidity , and versatility of intellectual powers , than in this child of his old age . Never did his genius exert itself more energetically , when the agent of Wisdom , than when the servant of Fancy , and Passion . That it is our dutv
to wage war with France FOR EVER , unless she shall restore the former orders , any impartial man , of plain common understanding , mustimmediatel y perceive to be absurd in theory , and ruinous in practice . ^ But , foratime , we forget the extravagance of the object , in the brilliancy of the images and the fertility of the invention ; in the ingenuity ofthe means , the imprafticability ofthe END .
Mr . Burke lost his only son in 1794 , and since that time he lived principally at Beaconsfield , where , as a private character , he was loved and revered in a most extraordinary degree . He was to the rich an agreeable , accommodating nei ghbour ; to the poor , a most wisely bountiful benefactor , and promoted contributions for their benefit , the advantages of which will be long feltIn relation of
do-. every mestic and social life his conduct was the result of tenderness , benevolence , and wisdom ; the deli ght of every one around him , from the labourer to the peer . He lived , with undecayed faculties , in tolerable health , till the beginning of 1797 , when he was seized with an illness , which , with several intermissions , and without . affecting his mind , continued to the last . He appeared neither to wish nor dread death .
He firml y believed in afuture state , and , from the calmness of his behaviour at the approach of death , showed , a conscience void of intentional offence . July 9 th he had been reading some of Addison ' s essays , in which he always took great deli ght . He had recommended himself , in many affectionate messages , to the remembrance of his absent ^ friends , and conversed , with his accustomed force of thought and expressionon the awful situation of his countryand had iven
, , oprivate directions with steady composure , when , as his attendants were carrying him to bed , he , without a groan , breathed his last . In talents and acquirements , no man of his country and age surpassed , scarcely any equalled , Bnrke . . His understanding , rapid , active , and powerful , penetrated through tlie . surface to the bottom of truth . His memory retained whatever it received . His comprehensive mind viewed its knowledge and thoughts in all their parts and relations . His discriminating judgment perceived the class to which