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The restoration of the clerks was an indefensible error of judgment, and its indiscretion was heightened by the kind of defence which Burke tried to set up. When we wonder at Burke's exclusion from great offices, this case of Powell and Bembridge should not be forgotten. The decisive event in the history of the Coalition Government was the India Bill.
I ventured, however, at all hazards, to put down the first instances that occurred to me, as proofs of Mr. Burke's lively and brilliant fancy; but am very sensible that his numerous friends could have suggested many of a superior quality.
Not the least valuable parts of Burke's just published "Anecdotes of the Aristocracy," are a species of essay on the fortunes of families. The following is from a chapter on their decadence: "It has often occurred to us that a very interesting paper might be written on the rise and fall of English families. Truly does Dr.
In him to modify Burke's phrase vice seemed, but only seemed, to lose half its seeming evil by losing all its apparent grossness. He was a neat and gentlemanly villain, and broke his biscuit with a dainty hand. There was a fine polish about his whole person, and a pliant, insinuating style in his conversation, that was, socially, quite irresistible.
In a remarkable letter to Windham of 1806, Mackintosh gives his estimate of Burke, and takes some credit to himself for having discovered, even in the time of his youthful errors, the consistency of Burke's principles, as founded upon an abhorrence of 'abstract politics. Politics, he now thought, must be made scientific by recognising with Burke the supreme importance of prescription and historic continuity, and by admitting that the philosophers had not yet constructed a science bearing to practical politics the same relation as geometry to mechanics.
Literature and commerce are made possible only through the wisdom of statesmen, says Macaulay. Edmund Burke's business was statecraft; his play was letters; but he lives for us through letters. He had two sets of ardent friends: his political associates, and that other little group of literary cronies made up of Johnson, Goldsmith, Boswell, Reynolds and Garrick.
That worthy tumbled down the stairs with a howl of pain. "Now, I'm going to shoot to kill. Every court in the state will sustain a policeman who shoots a white-slaver. Don't forget that!" cried Burke sharply. "You girls let them go first." Down the steps went the motley crew, backing slowly at Burke's order.
He had merely somewhat baldly, wholly dispassionately, told her the truth, and the very absence of emotion with which he had spoken had driven conviction to her soul. She saw him go with relief, but his words remained like a stone at the bottom of her heart. When Sylvia went to Guy a little later, she found him installed in Burke's room.
"He says Inspector Burke's got a gold watch that weighs a ton, an' all set with diamon's! which was give to 'im by admirin' friends!... We didn't contribute." "Given to him," Mary corrected, with a tolerant smile. Aggie sniffed once again. "What difference does it make?" she demanded, scornfully. "He's got it, ain't he?"
Such was the Inspector's summary of the case. Mary's words came frantically. Once again, she was become desperate over the course of events in this night of fearful happenings. "No, no! He didn't!" Burke's rasping voice reiterated the accusation with a certain complacency in the inevitability of the dilemma. "One of you killed Griggs. Which one of you did it?" He scowled at Dick.
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