This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...be helped at all. It is a dangerous thing to overstock either House with too strong an anti popular party; it thrusts away into irresponsible quarters too many of the duties of opposition. Bute was already conscious of this, when the first Number of the North Briton appeared. The clever Colonel of Buckinghamshire ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 Excerpt: ...be helped at all. It is a dangerous thing to overstock either House with too strong an anti popular party; it thrusts away into irresponsible quarters too many of the duties of opposition. Bute was already conscious of this, when the first Number of the North Briton appeared. The clever Colonel of Buckinghamshire militia, like a good officer, had warily waited his time. He did not apply the match till the train was fully laid, and an explosion sure. It has excited wonder, that papers of such small talent should have proved so effective; but much smaller talent would have finished a work so nearly completed by Bute himself. It was the minister, not the demagogue, who had arrayed one section of the kingdom in bitter hostility against the other. Demagogues can never do themselves this service; being after all the most dependent class of the community--mere lackeys to the lowest rank of uninstructed statesmen. A beggarly trade in sooth, and only better than the master's trade they serve. It is bad enough to live by vexing and exposing a sore, but worse to live by making one. There was violence on Wilkes's side; but there was also, in its rude coarse way, success. On the side of his opponents, there was violence and there was incapacity. Wilkes wrote libels in abundance; only, as he wittily expressed it, that he might try to ascertain how far the Liberty of the Press could go. But his opponents first stabbed the Liberty of the Press in a thousand places, and then, as Horace Walpole said with a happier wit than Wilkes's, wrote libels on every rag of its old clothes. Churchill assisted in the North Briton from the first; and wherever it shows the coarse broad mark of sincerity, there seems to us the trace of his hand. But he was not a good prose satirist. He wante...
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