The _Patriot King_ was the fountain of the new doctrines, which Burke trained his party to understand and to resist.

If his foe was domestic, it was from a foreign armoury that Burke derived the instruments of resistance.

The great fault of political writers is their too close adherence to the forms of the system of state which they happen to be expounding or examining.

They stop short at the anatomy of institutions, and do not penetrate to the secret of their functions.

An illustrious author in the middle of the eighteenth century introduced his contemporaries to a better way.