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THE LIFE

OF

EDMUND BURKE.

[Entered at Stationers-hall.]

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
SOLD ALSO BY MESSRS. RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE;
J. HATCHARD, AND J. WRIGHT, PICCADILLY.

Bayerische Staatsbibliothek B Münchenk

Munchen

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

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