[The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) by Edmund Burke]@TWC D-Link bookThe Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. I. (of 12) PARTy divisions, whether on the whole operating for good or evil, are 7/396
Because two accusations are better than one, contradictions are set staring one another in the face, without even an attempt to reconcile them.
And, to give the whole a sort of portentous air of labor and information, the table of the House of Commons is swept into this grand reservoir of politics. As to the composition, it bears a striking and whimsical resemblance to a funeral sermon, not only in the pathetic prayer with which it concludes, but in the style and tenor of the whole performance.
It is piteously doleful, nodding every now and then towards dulness; well stored with pious frauds, and, like most discourses of the sort, much better calculated for the private advantage of the preacher than the edification of the hearers. The author has indeed so involved his subject, that it is frequently far from being easy to comprehend his meaning.
It is happy for the public that it is never difficult to fathom his design.
The apparent intention of this author is to draw the most aggravated, hideous and deformed picture of the state of this country, which his querulous eloquence, aided by the arbitrary dominion he assumes over fact, is capable of exhibiting.
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