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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ADVERTISEMENT To The THIRD EDITION. / NQWprefent the following Work to the Pullic in third time, rendered, I hope, lefs unworthy of their favor, -Of Literary Criticifm it does not become me to quejiitn thejujiice, but Moral Animadversion I feel it due to tnyfclfto notice. The -vulgar clamor which has been raifed uiitbfuch malignant art again/) the friends of Freedom, as the apojlles of turbulence and fedition, has not even/pared the obfcurity of my name. To grangers I can only vindicate, myfelf by defying the authors effuch clamors to dijcover one paffage in this volume not in the highejl degree favorable to peace andjiable government. Tbofe to whom I am known would, I believe, be Jloiu to impute any fentiments of violence to a temper which the partiality of my friends muft confefs to be indolent, and the hojlility of enemies will not deny to be mild. I have leenaccufed, by valuable friends, of treating with ungenerous levity the misfortunes of the Royal Family of France. They will not however fuppofe me capable of deliberately violating the facrednefs of mifery in a palace or a cottage and I Jtncerely lament that IJhouldbave been betrayed into exprejjions which admitted that eonftruflion.. ': .: ' -.- Litt.'c Eating, Augujl 28, 1791. chapter{{Section 4INTRODUCTION. THE late opinions of Mr, Burke fur- nimed more matter of aftonifhment to thofe who had diftantly obferved, than to thofe who had corredtly examined the fyftem of his former political life. An abhorrence for abftraft politics, a predilection for ariftocracy, and a dread of innovation, have ever been among the moft facred articles of his public creed. It was not likely that at his age he fhould abandon to the invafionof audacious novelties, opinions which he had received fo early, and maintai...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217805438 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217805434 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 238 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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