Burke Select Works - Classic Reprint Author:Edmund Burke AN~CQmp1j~hed critic 1 has obsen'ed, with much truth, that the only specimen of Burke is 'all that he wrote,' because' every product: of his pen 'contains additional proofs of 'his power. Those who wish to understand the nature and Importance of his multifarious labours should make the acquaintance of his writings in the mass, and n'Thsterthem s... more »inglyhiri detail. It has long been understood that he ~vho gives his nights and days to this task will acquire a knowledge ofl1ie~princrple·s of general politics, 0(1hTHiiilt5tions whkh-Inodify those principles 'in our own national policy, of the questions with which that _p~licy deals, and of the secret of applying the English tongue to_their illustration, which cannot be acquired in any other way. In the prosecution of this task the student will Jearn -the practical importance of the maxim laid down in the Preface to a previous volume of this series, that all study, to be useful, must be pursued in a spirit of deference.
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