which was in all ages too often the case, and the fear: of man, which is now the case, and when in that state they come to understand one another, and to act in corps, a more dreadful calamity cannot arise out of hell to scourge mankind. Nothing can be conceived more hard than the heart of a thorough-bred metaphysician. It comes nearer to the cold malignity of a wicked spirit than to the frailty and passion of a man. It is like that of the principle of evil himself, incorporeal, pure, unmixed, dephlegmated, defecated evil. * * * * Writers, especially when they act in a body, and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. MERCANTILE AND MONIED INTERESTS. As to the mere matter of estimation of the mercantile or any other class, this is regulated by opinion and prejudice. In England a security against the envy of men in these classes, is not so very complete as we may imagine. We must not impose upon ourselves. What institutions and manners together had done in France, manners alone do here. It is the natural operation of things where there exists a crown, a court, splendid orders of knighthood, and an hereditary nobility;--where there exists a fixed, permanent, landed gentry, continued in greatness and opulence by the law of primogeniture, and by a protection given to family settlements ;--where there exists a standing army and navy; where there exists a church establishment, which bestows on learning and parts an interest combined with that of religion and the state ;-in a country where such things exist, wealth, new in its acquisition and precarious in its duration, can never rank first, or even near the first; though wealth has its natural weight, further, than as it is balanced and even preponderated amongst us as amongst other nations, by artificial institutions and opinions growing out of them. * * * * The monied interest is in its nature more ready for any adventure; and its possessors more disposed to new enterprizes of any kind. Being of a recent acquisition, it falls in more naturally with any novelties. It is therefore the kind of wealth which will be resorted to by all who wish for change. MERCY. MERCY is not a thing opposed to justice. It is an essential part of it; as necessary in criminal cases, in civil affairs equity is to law. as THE END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. C. WHITTINGHAM, Printer, Dean Street. INDEX OF REFERENCE TO THE WORKS OF THE RIGHT HON. EDMUND BURKE. That the reader may be enabled, without trouble, to turn to the various parts of Mr. BURKE's works, from which Page 303 304 ficult, &c.” Speech on the Nabob of Arcot's debts. 317 VOL. I. Page &c.” Thoughts and Details on Scarcity. Vol. vii. 388 Speech at Bristol, previous to the Election. Vol. iii...378 Member of the National Assembly. Vol. vi..... 52 Speech on Economical Reform. Vol. iii...... 282 vations on a late State of the Nation. Vol. ii ......... 91 Regicide Peace. Let. iii. Vol. viii.... ..........315 366 79 &c.” Thoughts on French Affairs. Vol. vii........ 75 Observations on the Conduct of the Minority, vol. vii. 262 Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. Vol. vi... 202-3 151 Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs. Vol. vi.... 217 flections on the Revolution in France. Vol. v...... 174 58 61 237 170 198 418 Page 180 Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. 29 315 citizens, &c.” Speech at Bristol previous to the Election. Vol. iii.... 331 Noble Lord on the Pepal Laws. Vol. vi...... 275 390 279 315 175 369 Letter to a Member of the National Assembly. 26 .-"Without all doubt charity,” &c. Thoughts 391 ..... 196 127 Letter to a Member the National Assembly. 10 leave to speak, &c.” Reflections on the Revolution in 176 |
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