Memoir of the Life and Character of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke
Subtitle: With Specimens of His Poetry and Letters, and an Estimate of His Genius and Talents, Compared ... Those of His Great Contemporaries. Volume 2
Publisher: Adamant Media Corporation
Published: May 16, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 554
ISBN-13: 9781421248530
Subjects: poetry,Edmund Burke,letters,estimation,life,character,memoir,literature study; Biography & Autobiography / Literary
First sentence: DURING the period of the application to Parliament of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales for an increase of income in order to the liquidation of his debts, Mr. Sheridan, who was then supposed to stand high in the confidence of the illustrious personage, was commenting in strong terms, when dining one day at the table of Mr. Crewe, on the hardship of the case, and the disinclination shown by the executive government to assist him; concluding with a kind of authoritative assertion, that if not granted, His Royal Highness must discontinue the necessary repairs of Carlton House, and must retire from the dignity of his public station into the obscurity of private life.