Memoir of the Life And Character of Edmund Burke With Specimens of His Poetry a
Memoir of the Life And Character of Edmund Burke With Specimens of His Poetry a
James Prior
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Lord Crewe was accustomed to tell a pleasant story of a very opulent Liver- pool trader, who, having invested a large sum in the purchase of estates, expressed the height of his ambition to be to have a park as large as that of the Duke of Bedford. Calling upon his lord- ship one day, at a time when from some matter of political interest Mr. Burke's name was on every tongue, and in every newspaper, he exclaimed in a broad, vulgar, self-sufficient manner — " And after all, who is this Mr. Burke,... my Lord, that they make such a fuss about ? Why, he's nobody. — He has^nt got our number of acres, my Lord. " A circumstance, which subsequent events made of interest, took place in the debate on the address this session, when Mr. Charles Fox, in his first parliamentary essay, attempting to answer the objections of the Rockingham party, had some of his arguments successfully turned into ridicule by its leader. No offence was taken by the young orator. He had been taught some time be- fore, by the literary society at his father's table, to think highly of the talents of Mr.
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