OF EDMUND BURKE. COMPREHENDING AN IMPARTIAL ACCOUNT OF HIS LITERARY AND POLITICAL EFFORTS, AND A Sketch of the Conduct and Character OF HIS MOST EMINENT ASSOCIATES, COADJUTORS, AND OPPONENTS. By ROBERT BISSET, LL.D. LONDON: PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY GEORGE CAWTHORN, BRITISH LIBRARY, NO. 132, STRAND; AND ADVERTISEMENT. GENERAL and special objects, which it would be the impertinence of egotism to detail, had long led me to a close contemplation of the history, talents, and conduct of Mr. Burke. I last year wrote a sketch of his literary and political life for a monthly publication;* part of which appeared in the number for May, and the rest afterwards, though not in continuity. Finding that sketch favourably received, and being not without encouragement in previous opinion and criticism to perseverance in literary exertion, I resolved to extend the sketch into a minute consideration of the intellectual, moral, and political his |