Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . Edmund Burke EDMUND BURKE. WAS not, like His Grace of Bedford, swaddled androcked and dandled into a legislator; nitor in adversumis the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one ofthe qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recom-mend men to the favour and protection of the great. Iwas not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the tradeof winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of thepeople. At every step of my progress in life, for in every step I wastraversed and opposed, and at every turnpike I met, I
Little journeys to the homes of eminent orators . Edmund Burke EDMUND BURKE. WAS not, like His Grace of Bedford, swaddled androcked and dandled into a legislator; nitor in adversumis the motto for a man like me. I possessed not one ofthe qualities, nor cultivated one of the arts, that recom-mend men to the favour and protection of the great. Iwas not made for a minion or a tool. As little did I follow the tradeof winning the hearts, by imposing on the understandings of thepeople. At every step of my progress in life, for in every step I wastraversed and opposed, and at every turnpike I met, I was obliged toshow my passport, and again and again to prove my sole title to thehonour of being useful to my country, by a proof that I was notwholly unacquainted with its laws and the whole system of its inter-ests both abroad and at home; otherwise no rank, no toleration evenfor tne. EDMUND BURKE 139 N the American Encyclopedia, a workI cheerfully recommend, will be founda statement to the effect that EdmundBurke was one of the fifteen childrenof his parents. Aside fro
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