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Burkiana:
He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy , too much innocence to provoke any enmity . The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere , general , and unmixed sorrow . ON SHERIDAN ' s ELOQUENCE . On the celebrated speech of Sheridan on the Begum charge Mr . Burke bestowed the following very hig h but not exaggeiated
panegyric : He has this day surprised the thousands , who hung with rapture on his accents , by such an array of talents , such an exhibition of capacity , such a display of powers , as are unparalleled in the annals of oratory ; a display that reflected the highest honour upon himself , lustre ' upon letters , renown upon parliament , glory upon the country . Of all the species of rhetoric , of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed or recorded , either in ancient or modern times , whatever the acuteness of the . bar , the dignity of the senate , the solidity of the uido-nient-seat , and the sacred morality of the pulpit have
hitherto furnished , nothing has surpassed , nothing has equalled what % ve have heard this day in Westminster-hall . No holy seer of religion , no sage , no statesman , no orator , no man of any literary description whatever has come up , in the one instance , to the pure ' sentiments of . morality , or , in the other , to that variety of knowledge , force of imagination , propriety and vivacity of allusion , beauty and elegance of dictionstrength and iousness of stylepathos and
, cop , _ sublimity of conception , to which we have this day listened ^ with ardour and admiration . From poetry , up to eloquence , there is not a species of composition , of which a complete and perfect specimen mig ht not , from that single speech , be culled and collefted .
FRENCH RIGHTS OF MAN . THE French laid' the axe to the root of property . They mane and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy , called the Rights of Man . ' Their conduct was marked by a savage and unfeeling barbarity . Thev had no other system than a determination to destroy all order , subvert all arrangement , and reduce every rank and descrip' of attack the
tion of men to one level . Theirsignal was warwhoop . fcheir liberty was licentiousness , and their relig ion was atheism . LEGITIMATE RIGHTS OF MAN . FAR am 1 from denying in theory , full as far is my heart from wiuY holdino- in practice , ( if I were of power to give or to withhold ) the ml richts of In denying their false claims of rihtI do not mean
man . g , fcTiiijure those which are real , and such as their pretended rights would totally destroy . If civil society be made . for the advantage of man , ajl the advantages for which it is made become his rig ht ; it is an institution of beneficence , and law itself is only beneficence acting by rule . Men have a rig ht to live by that rule ; they have a ng ht . tojusbetween their fellowswhether their fellows are in politic furic
tice as . , tion or in ordinary occupation . They have a rig ht to the fruits ot their industry , and to the means of'making their industry fruitful-They have a rig ht to the acquisitions of their parents , to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in . life ai )«
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Burkiana:
He had too much merit not to excite some jealousy , too much innocence to provoke any enmity . The loss of no man of his time can be felt with more sincere , general , and unmixed sorrow . ON SHERIDAN ' s ELOQUENCE . On the celebrated speech of Sheridan on the Begum charge Mr . Burke bestowed the following very hig h but not exaggeiated
panegyric : He has this day surprised the thousands , who hung with rapture on his accents , by such an array of talents , such an exhibition of capacity , such a display of powers , as are unparalleled in the annals of oratory ; a display that reflected the highest honour upon himself , lustre ' upon letters , renown upon parliament , glory upon the country . Of all the species of rhetoric , of every kind of eloquence that has been witnessed or recorded , either in ancient or modern times , whatever the acuteness of the . bar , the dignity of the senate , the solidity of the uido-nient-seat , and the sacred morality of the pulpit have
hitherto furnished , nothing has surpassed , nothing has equalled what % ve have heard this day in Westminster-hall . No holy seer of religion , no sage , no statesman , no orator , no man of any literary description whatever has come up , in the one instance , to the pure ' sentiments of . morality , or , in the other , to that variety of knowledge , force of imagination , propriety and vivacity of allusion , beauty and elegance of dictionstrength and iousness of stylepathos and
, cop , _ sublimity of conception , to which we have this day listened ^ with ardour and admiration . From poetry , up to eloquence , there is not a species of composition , of which a complete and perfect specimen mig ht not , from that single speech , be culled and collefted .
FRENCH RIGHTS OF MAN . THE French laid' the axe to the root of property . They mane and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy , called the Rights of Man . ' Their conduct was marked by a savage and unfeeling barbarity . Thev had no other system than a determination to destroy all order , subvert all arrangement , and reduce every rank and descrip' of attack the
tion of men to one level . Theirsignal was warwhoop . fcheir liberty was licentiousness , and their relig ion was atheism . LEGITIMATE RIGHTS OF MAN . FAR am 1 from denying in theory , full as far is my heart from wiuY holdino- in practice , ( if I were of power to give or to withhold ) the ml richts of In denying their false claims of rihtI do not mean
man . g , fcTiiijure those which are real , and such as their pretended rights would totally destroy . If civil society be made . for the advantage of man , ajl the advantages for which it is made become his rig ht ; it is an institution of beneficence , and law itself is only beneficence acting by rule . Men have a rig ht to live by that rule ; they have a ng ht . tojusbetween their fellowswhether their fellows are in politic furic
tice as . , tion or in ordinary occupation . They have a rig ht to the fruits ot their industry , and to the means of'making their industry fruitful-They have a rig ht to the acquisitions of their parents , to the nourishment and improvement of their offspring ; to instruction in . life ai )«