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A Review Of The Life And Writings Of The Right Honourable Edmund Burke.
affairs in general . After his speech on American taxation , none of his orations entered so much at large into that subject ^ Besides exhibiting a most complete view of tlie dispute , and the " " proceedings of bolli parties , it contains a summary of his opinion respecting civil and political liberty . Whether it be all just reasoning or not , it must be allowed to be the production of a mind of the greatest force ,
expansion , and fulness . Whenever a great and general question occurred , the vast capacity of Burke manifested itself . -Although he could shew wonderful talents on unimportant subjects , yet it was on momentous subjects that his powers were fully drawn forward . A motion for freeing the trade of Ireland from ceitain restrictions , injurious to that country without benefitting * this , plated Burke in a ven delicate and embarrassing situation . He conceived it his duty as a " senator to supoort the cause of Ireland , which he thought
injured by the restraints in question . His constituents of Bristol apprehended that their interests would be affected , should the bills in favour of the Irish trade , supported by their representative , pass into laws ; and intimated to him their opinion , expecting that the intimation mig ht induce him to withdraw his support of the propositions . He was convinced < the bills were both equitable and prudent for both countries lt came to be a questionwhether he should follow
, , the voice of his constituents , or the voice of his conscience . The stronger obligation prevailed . Losing , by this means , much of his popularity in Bristol , he , when a new election came on , declined the poll , in a very eloquent speech . In that speech , going over the proceedings of the parliament , he mentioned a law that had passed against imprisonment for small debts * and'he took occasion to deliver his
sen-, timents on imprisonment f r debt in general . He concurred with his friend Johnson , in being inimical to that mode of procedure . Both these great men , in their sentiments on that subject , seem to attend too exclusively to the debtor , without allowing equal attention to the creditor .
This speech concludes with the most beautiful and pathetic panegyric on the benevolent Howard . The immense expence of the American war becoming a subject of general complaint , Burke proposed a plan for a Reform in the Expenditure of the Public Money . The speech with which he introduced bills to this effect was one of the most masterly he ever delivered . He here , as in ail his orations on important subjects , shewed
a happy combination of detail and generalization , rle shelved views of finance that mig ht have produced a treatise on the nature and causes of tbe wealth of naticns , and at the same time a most minute acquaintance with the salaries of offices . His reform was confined to the civil list , no doubt the smallest of the great departments of public expenditure . It is probable he intended to apply his principles to the greater—the ordnance , the army , and navy . . He became so much a paity-man , that he would not allow merit
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.
affairs in general . After his speech on American taxation , none of his orations entered so much at large into that subject ^ Besides exhibiting a most complete view of tlie dispute , and the " " proceedings of bolli parties , it contains a summary of his opinion respecting civil and political liberty . Whether it be all just reasoning or not , it must be allowed to be the production of a mind of the greatest force ,
expansion , and fulness . Whenever a great and general question occurred , the vast capacity of Burke manifested itself . -Although he could shew wonderful talents on unimportant subjects , yet it was on momentous subjects that his powers were fully drawn forward . A motion for freeing the trade of Ireland from ceitain restrictions , injurious to that country without benefitting * this , plated Burke in a ven delicate and embarrassing situation . He conceived it his duty as a " senator to supoort the cause of Ireland , which he thought
injured by the restraints in question . His constituents of Bristol apprehended that their interests would be affected , should the bills in favour of the Irish trade , supported by their representative , pass into laws ; and intimated to him their opinion , expecting that the intimation mig ht induce him to withdraw his support of the propositions . He was convinced < the bills were both equitable and prudent for both countries lt came to be a questionwhether he should follow
, , the voice of his constituents , or the voice of his conscience . The stronger obligation prevailed . Losing , by this means , much of his popularity in Bristol , he , when a new election came on , declined the poll , in a very eloquent speech . In that speech , going over the proceedings of the parliament , he mentioned a law that had passed against imprisonment for small debts * and'he took occasion to deliver his
sen-, timents on imprisonment f r debt in general . He concurred with his friend Johnson , in being inimical to that mode of procedure . Both these great men , in their sentiments on that subject , seem to attend too exclusively to the debtor , without allowing equal attention to the creditor .
This speech concludes with the most beautiful and pathetic panegyric on the benevolent Howard . The immense expence of the American war becoming a subject of general complaint , Burke proposed a plan for a Reform in the Expenditure of the Public Money . The speech with which he introduced bills to this effect was one of the most masterly he ever delivered . He here , as in ail his orations on important subjects , shewed
a happy combination of detail and generalization , rle shelved views of finance that mig ht have produced a treatise on the nature and causes of tbe wealth of naticns , and at the same time a most minute acquaintance with the salaries of offices . His reform was confined to the civil list , no doubt the smallest of the great departments of public expenditure . It is probable he intended to apply his principles to the greater—the ordnance , the army , and navy . . He became so much a paity-man , that he would not allow merit