Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 17

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Excerpt from Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 17: January-June, 1825Of course, a biographer, to do full justice to the fame of Burke, should be able to sketch, distinctly and vividly, the effects which his speeches and writings produced, both to his own country and to Europe - be should be able to draw the line between the tri umphs of his hero and those of Pitt -he should be able to pourtray the mighty in¿uence and prodigious er rors, follies, and guilt, of Fox and the Whigs - he should be able to paint the tretmndous and appalling army of ene mies, difficulties, and sorrows, which Burke had toenconnterwhen he gained the most glorious of his victorit s, and which would have crushed and de stroyed any spirit but his own - and he should be able to cope with, not ml the delusions, but the prejudices an! The wickedness of parties. He should possess a mind equally daunt less and impartial - determined to be alike just and uns ring, and to deal as liberally in con emnation as panc gyric - aware that, as it had espoused the cause of one whom almost all con spired to wrong, it could only do jus tice to him by treating every enemy with due severity.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.